Good afternoon, everyone. A very, very sunny afternoon. So it's been quite the week. We've had,

of course, the local elections. Now, the Tories took a battering, I think that's important to say.

It was on the worst end of what they privately predicted, despite attempts and the telegraph to

suggest they were on course, to lose many more hundreds of seats than they actually did. That was

never going to happen, but they still took an absolute battering. Question is, did Labour make

enough progress to be comfortable, for example, forming at least a minority government in the event

of a hung parliament, let alone a majority? But it isn't all, of course, it hasn't all been about

the local elections. On the day of the local election results coming through, the so-called bigate

scandal, which I have to say people like myself dismissed that of hand, appeared to engulf the

Labour leadership. So we're going to be talking about the latest on that, the latest revelations,

what does it all mean, is Keir Starmer in a lot of trouble. But more broadly, does he have a

shot at becoming Labour leader? We'll talk about the kind of internal wrangling of the Labour pie.

That's what we like to do on the left. So later on, we'll be joined by Michael Walker from

Navara and, of course, the journalist Paul Mason to offer, I think, different perspectives on what

next for the Labour party. Now, what I'm going to do is bring in first, because we don't have him

for long, and we're very lucky to have him, the brilliant, of course, I can't say sociologists,

can I, John? Just a John Curtis, how do I pronounce sociologists? I can't do it.

It's a sociologist, it's why you need to have had an education in the classics and then it's

going forward. So that's what's ever in green. What the first person to tell myself to get a bit more

educated than you won't be the last. John, obviously, very familiar on our screens during every

election period, in particular, let's just have a look quickly at where things now stand, because

I saw your analysis throughout the night on the low collections, as I'm sure many people did.

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