The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

This is a global player original podcast.

It has been a week of ritual bloodletting for the Labour Party.

Faction against faction, chaotic day after day, where they couldn't even seem to decide

whether one single MP would be allowed to stand or not. And it's really hit them in the polls because

they've never looked stronger. Labor's lead over the Tories is as big as when it started.

Kirstama's approval rating has never been

higher against Rishi Sunak. Everything is looking as though the worst week ever has actually

been just fine. Welcome to the newsagents. The News Agents.

It's John.

It's Lewis.

It's Emily.

And bloody hell, all three of us on a Sunday.

I mean, what's going on?

We're through the looking glass now.

Well, here we are all together.

At the end of Labour's terrible week, as we say, I've never been looking so good

for them. But there are bits to deconstruct from a week where it didn't go according to plan.

The whole fight with Diane Abbott seemed to kind of spin out of control. And yet as we get to

the end of the week, I wonder whether the deal that was originally stitched up at the

beginning that Diane Abbott would get the whip back but wouldn't stand in the election is what

the end result is going to be. I think that's right. I think the widespread expectation from everybody

...