No, I'm a massive honor to have you joining us again. So thank you so, so much

my pleasure

Let's die straight in

Keir Starmer Sir Keir Starmer leader of the Labour Party

became leader on a program you could describe as

Corbinism without Corbin, but now his leadership could be best described as

Blaireism without Blair. So I'm just curious about your own reflections on Keir Starmer's

leadership and what it represents politically.

I think, frankly, he's destroying the Labour Party. In fact, the most

since you mentioned Corbin, his most remarkable

comment in recent days has been to virtually expel

Corbin from the Labour Party because Corbin took positions

which in fact are not very different from those of

President George H.W. Bush in the early 90s. What Corbin said was that after the Ukraine

problem is settled one way or another, we should begin to rethink whether military alliances

are the proper way to deal with international affairs. Very dangerous comment.

Go back to the early 90s. The collapse of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, of course,

proposed the European common home, no military alliances, accommodation.

And George Bush, this is the first Bush, had a position which was not that different.

He proposed what he called a partnership for peace. Of course, Bush adhered to the firm

unambiguous promise that he had made the Gorbachev, that NATO would not extend beyond Germany.

He adhered to that completely Clinton later, toward it, up, toward it up.

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