This introduction to the podcast is being recorded at six minutes past two on Tuesday.

And you need to say that because by 10 minutes past two, we could not have a prime minister anymore.

It's extraordinary how things are falling apart.

We have just spotted that Jess Phillips, for example, has resigned.

And yet, Kier Starrmer is still our prime minister.

So we look at all of that,

the runners, the riders, the rumours about West Streeting, a possible soft left candidate,

but who could it be? And the certainty that none of that is really going to take labour out of the doldrums in which they find themselves. But that overshadows our own elections.

What's next for the SNP?

Is it right to exclude reform from talks?

What significance will Wales play for Scotland in what comes ahead?

There's an awful lot to talk about.

Those are just some of the headlines.

Now for the podcast.

Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast in the words of the great

and sadly late Alex Salmon. Leslie, I heard a rumor. I think we won the election. I know.

Well, I have to say, you and I were just having a little bit of a kind of smug moment.

I have to say before we came on air. I don't know why it just feels wrong. Perhaps it's

just upbringing to kind of be, you know, or just, it's just to be smug in public. It just seems to be

absolutely smug before a fall, you know, but still having had to sit through all that, I think,

labour stuff from 2024 and the mandate they got and all of them

wooden to the core in the way they communicate. I mean, my stepdaughter has just texted me in

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