Kirstambrus is somebody who couldn't be moved to say anything critical at all when

Nigel Farage gave that speech talking about deporting 600,000 people to Iran and Saudi Arabia.

This is a guy who never has a problem speaking out when he wants to.

If he wants to diss just up oil or he wants to attack Palestine protesters, he's got a mouth,

but he doesn't want to be seen to be in any way distancing himself or criticizing the far right.

I think as far as Labour politics is concerned, that's because what they're looking for in the

long run come 2029 is a contest between labor and reform.

They want reform to do well.

It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you're a centrist political formation

with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for

you in large numbers is to make it a kind of blackmail.

It's either us or the far right.