Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman. As Labor's civil war flares up again,

I reveal a plot by Tom Watson to oust Jeremy Corbyn. We also talk about Matt Hancock's second

favourite app, Babylon Health, and ask, is it really all it's set out to be? And last, with almost

a million polls living in Britain, why don't you ever see them on screen? We talk to the Polish

ambassador in London. First, Labour is in turmoil again. Many supporters were disheartened by last

week's panorama on anti-Semitism, but not as much as they were shocked by the party's

aggressive attack on the whistleblowers in the programme. What's more, many Corbynites are still

smarting from the European elections and not all of them agree with the leadership's approach

to Brexit. With even loyalists starting to doubt Corbyn, I reveal Deputy Leader Tom Watson's

new plot to oust the Labour leader in this week's

issue. On the podcast now, I'm joined by Aisha Hazarika, former advisor to Harriet Harman, and Matt

Turner, former editor of Evolve Politics. So, Matt, how strong do you think Jeremy Corbyn's

position is in the Labour Party at the moment?

Well, I think, you know, over the last month or so, in particular, you know, the Brexit storm and the anti-Semitism discussion has been a real sticking point for Corbyn's leadership.

You know, it's really true to say that it's taken an even more damaging turn.

I think it's questionable to conclude that this has gone to the

wider electorate, you know, besides the UGov poll putting them in fourth, all other polling

companies have had labour in first or second, which consequently means that they are first, mostly, in the polling averages as well.

What's not questionable is the poisonous atmosphere that

this is created internally inside the party. And having read Isabel's piece in The Spectator,

you know, she's right to say that Tom Watson has become the figurehead for that discontent,

felt by many members of the Parliamentary Labour Party at the very least.

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