James

Ooh la la.

Thinking about it like a panto helped.

And it's James in the lovely newscast Glasgow studio.

Well, that is obviously in the hands of the voters in the end.

But I think I can answer it to a certain extent, Adam.

Is Sir Keir Starmer's very high unpopularity in polls a drag on Scottish Labour's prospects in this election?

Yes, of course it is.

And we were talking about a party that went from one seat to 39 in the general election two years ago, while the Scottish National Party fell from 48 seats to nine.

So there was clearly a huge swell of, if not good,

necessarily confidence in Sir Keir as a prospective Prime Minister, an opportunity for him to convince voters that he could be a good Prime Minister.

There's clearly enough people in Scotland saying, we will give you a shot.

Polls since then suggest that

people have been disappointed in him.

And has that been a drag on Anas Sarwar?

Yes.

Did Anas Sarwar take a significant risk when he called for the Prime Minister to go?

Yes.

But one former Director of Communications for the party...

Alan Roden, I heard him on Radio Scotland Breakfast yesterday or the day before.

I thought he made quite a good point, Adam, which is he was saying, look, what Anas Sarwar has done here is stop this campaign being, just what you and Alex were talking about there, being entirely focused on the Prime Minister and the state of the UK government.