I'm John Batchel with Simon Constable, my dear friend for many decades, my Englishman in the South of France.

And now we go to the politics of Mother England.

There is a contest underway between labor and labor to choose either to continue with Kirstearner,

the less than successful prime minister so far with an overwhelming majority in parliament or to go to a

new leadership two names that are advanced routinely now a man named any burnham who is the mayor of

greater Manchester but was a member of parliament and in order to challenge stormer he must rejoin parliament

and he's standing for a by-election,

which will take place in a number of days.

If he is successful, first past the post, and it is a constituency associated with labor, he should be.

He will then regain Parliament, and the challenge will be immediate.

There is another man, West Streeting, who's a member of cabinet now resigned,

who's a young man and making his move early in his career.

We wish him well, but he's not the major player.

Burnham is.

Complicating all this is Nigel Farage, leading the Reform Party,

who is interested in challenging Burnham and Starrmer in the talking about ranks, not necessarily

in the voting ranks. It's complicated, and I can't solve that. So I go to Simon to understand.

Simon, before we turn to the Novak tragedy, which is a moving story, The contest between Starmor and Burnham looks one-sided

for Burnham if he regains that, if he regains Parliament in the in the by-election. Have I read that

correctly? Burnham wins. He's got the votes already in labor to become prime minister.

I think that is correct, yes.

I think that is absolutely correct, unless something happens before the by-election.

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