well, i'm joined now by the former labour treasury minister, sir stephen timms and sir stephen.t want to get your reaction. looking at that picture, the country has never looked more red. >> well i obviously very much welcome the support for labour party that that poll and others are showing. i'm rather sceptical about the detail of, of this one. my conversations with people on the doorstep haven't suggested either. quite the scale of collapse of the conservative vote, that this poll is suggesting, or the scale of support for the lib dems ehhen of support for the lib dems either. so. but who knows? you know, we'll we'll find out in the early hours of friday morning. i do think the labour party, my colleagues who've been responsible for running the campaign, have done a good job, it's been well organised. there's been lots of enthusiasm and energy in the campaign and people have been wanting to contribute and to help. and i also think there's a really strong sense across the country. it is time for a change. we must now have a change. and i'm hoping that that sense and, and enthu

douglas, people like jackie smith, people like hilary benn, who came back a while ago, people like stephen timms performer who understands government, who's come back into government. i think what keir has been doing is choosing people who've got real experience of delivery within government and compare and contrast the experience of government within this new labour government in 1997, there are only two ministers, in one of whom was a cousin of mine. >> lord morris of aberavon, who was related via my mother and grandfather, in which case it was three, because it was jack cunningham and margaret beckett as well . so but john morris came as well. so but john morris came in as well, and now we've got about 12 to 15 who've got experience. and that really helps because understanding how government works is how you pull the levers of government and actually, dare i say it, whisper it quietly, having sue gray, who knows more about the machinery of government than anybody else, is not a bad appointment. >> absolutely. i mean , i had >> absolutely. i mean, i had some interactions with her in government

>> well, we're going to be talking to stephen timms of the labour party on what is expected to be a superaps supercalifragilistic supercalifragilistic . what on supercalifragilistic. what on earth am i trying to do ? earth am i trying to do? majority according to these latest polls. but we're also going to be looking at postal votes. the uk is only one of seven countries around the world. seven major countries where you can get a postal vote on demand. every other country attaches some qualification. you have to be infirm. you have to be disabled. you have to be away for some reason. do we have far too liberal a system of postal voting in this country? and is that causing some of the problems? too many people having postal votes that don't need them? and is that causing some of the problems with delivery? we'll be getting into that discussion as well. but that's not all. we've got a gb news exclusive on that channel 4 sting into reform uk. what exactly did they ask those activists? >> oh, wonderful. well stay tuned for that. i'm going to be back tomorrow at 7 pm. but up next is the weathe

and attempted murders we've seen at constituency surgeries, whether that was david amess or even stephen timmss just it's a deeply unfortunate because that constituency link and the accessibility of your mps. >> but maybe we have to grow up now. it's a different world. i mean, i when you watch the tv news and you see an mp walking down whitehall or something up to downing street and being harassed by reporters and camera crews, that's fine. that's one thing. but then you think how vulnerable are they? and just walking up the street. yeah. and their mps and maybe, you know, when, when they announce a new cabinet or something and you see them coming off the main off whitehall and coming into downing street walking, i think, why do we expect our mps to be so vulnerable? i think maybe we're not growing up when they're walking up downing street. >> they are surrounded by security. yeah, but they get to downing street by walking up whitehall. >> but and they're yelled at and harassed on the way. but i've campaigned with nigel farage in the past. >> sometimes it's been absolutely bloody. it's been aw