I am beyond on it. I have Becky Long Bailey as I live and breathe. Hello. Hello.

From a plastic northern in me to an authentic northerner who hasn't betrayed her northern

reach, of course, the member of Parliament for Solford, former leadership contest, I should

just set my cards at the table. I voted for Becky Long Bailey to be to be leader. We'll

come onto that, I think. Becky, right, I just want to start with just the results. Okay,

let's just start with the results and your interpretation of the results that Labour

got across the board. Obviously, we had the catastrophic results in heart people. In

Scotland went backwards, important to say, because the Scottish Labour leaders seem to

go on TV and suggest otherwise, and then across England, different results. But I just

want to hear what's your take on the results and what they say. Well, I think it's clear

now that we've had time to do the post-mortem, that a lot of what we were feeling on the grounds

came to fruition really. We went into the local elections with little to offer in terms

of policy. There was an emphasis on focus groups and slogans and the way people appear,

you know, wearing suits. And that wasn't enough to build trust in Labour to make people vote

for us. But it's interesting, because in that policy vacuum and amid the terrible results

that we saw in certain parts of the country, we saw places like Wales, Preston, Greater Manchester

and Salford delivering fantastic results. We won seats from the Tories that we've never

won before in Salford and Paul Dennett, our mayor, increased his vote share from 49% last

time to 59%. So you've got to ask the question, what happened in Salford that didn't happen

in other parts of the country? And for me, that's quite clear. We had a vision. We set

out an economic platform. We got our messaging right and we built that brand within our community.

And there were so many things that Paul the Mayor and our council has did. They set out a bold

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