This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after ten is the time. You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where it's a bit of an odd period, isn't it, after the sort of feebrile nature of the last few years.

Obviously Brexit-related, but while all road-seasoned, period, isn't it? After the sort of feebrile nature of the last few years, obviously Brexit related,

but while all roads seem to lead to or from Brexit, the passions that were running high,

the feverish support or enmity demonstrated towards various politicians and candidates,

it's almost as if somebody flicked a switch when that exit poll came out on Thursday night. And an awful lot of the stuff that seemed to be

the absolute utmost importance is now over. The debates are now over. So where will the new ones

unfold? Astonishingly, but utterly unastonishingly, the new Prime Minister has appointed an unelected bureaucrat to the Secretary of State for Culture and Sport, but it's probably still too early to point that stuff out, that level of hypocrisy.

What do you want? No more unelected bureaucrats.

What's Boris Johnson's first act as Prime Minister?

Putting Nikki Morgan in the House of Lords and letting her keep her job in the cabinet.

Oh well.

But of course, opposition then becomes crucial.

And I don't know how helpful to you it is for me to admit that I'm a little bit in the dark on how things

are going to unfold. It seems to me to depend largely upon whether or not the Labour Party

can elect a leader around whom the whole movement can coalesce. Whatever your feelings were about the last leader, the current soon-to-be ex-leader,

there is no argument at all for the entire Labour movement having coalesced around him.

I don't know whether a more conventional leader, somebody cut from a slightly more conventional cloth like Kirstama,

would be able to achieve it either, because I don't know whether or not the people drawn to

labour by Jeremy Corbyn would stay there in the event of Kirstama being leader.

I think yesterday the most important discovery we made

was how ridiculously patronising it was of me.

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