I'm Ed Vasey, and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day from Andy Burnham's chances of being our next Prime Minister to whether politicians should be easier to mimic and why Zach Pallanski didn't vote last week. Well, who can blame him?

I'm joined by the Labour peer and former shadow culture secretary

Tangham, Debenair. Welcome to the show, Tangham. Morning, Ed. Yes, it is still the morning, yes.

And the former Times diplomatic editor, Michael Binion. Hello, Michael. Hello, Ed. Right,

it's been an extraordinary week in Westminster, the kind of

psycho drama. Most voters thought would be a thing of the past when they kicked out the Conservatives

less than two years ago. I must say, I've been enjoying people bringing up the tweets that people

tweeted in July 24, saying at last a strong and stable government. I think Anna Subrey,

the former Tory minister, made a big

show of her tweet saying she was now deleting it and how wrong she had been. Anyway, the pound

has fallen in response to the news that Andy Burnham is plotting a return to Westminster. He

intends to challenge Kirstama for the leadership and West Streeting has resigned and he's also expected to be in that

fight. He's no longer the health secretary. He's a candidate to be our prime minister.

Tangham, should we start with you? Oh, do. Please. Why not? I'll tell you one thing that made me

want to vote Labor was the brief rumor that they were going to put Andy Burnham in the House of Law to make him Prime Minister.

I mean, I can't get my head around that at all.

Right, Sam, Andrew, take us through your head.

Oh, take you through my head. I'm not sure and frankly I have booked an emergency therapy

session this afternoon. This is a difficult week and it follows another really awful week for

the Labour Party. I mean, last week we lost a lot of elections. It may feel like ancient history

now, but it's actually the most important thing we ought to be thinking about internally and what we ought to be doing externally is talking to the

country about their priorities and how we're meeting them not future tense we need to have more

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