Nish Kumar

Most of your career has been spent covering, sort of looking directly into the heart of darkness. Let's be honest here, Lewis. You've come of age as a political journalist in, I guess we say, sort of an interesting period of the history of this planet and I guess this country as well.

Most of your career has been spent covering, sort of looking directly into the heart of darkness. Let's be honest here, Lewis. You've come of age as a political journalist in, I guess we say, sort of an interesting period of the history of this planet and I guess this country as well.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, let's stick with Donald Trump before coming back to some of the big domestic political news. He's just declared today, as we record, that the US is going to take over the Gaza Strip, hence his former ambassador to Israel's Gaza Lager, whatever it was, remarks to you this morning, and relocate Palestinians to neighboring countries, which would amount to ethnic cleansing.

Well, let's stick with Donald Trump before coming back to some of the big domestic political news. He's just declared today, as we record, that the US is going to take over the Gaza Strip, hence his former ambassador to Israel's Gaza Lager, whatever it was, remarks to you this morning, and relocate Palestinians to neighboring countries, which would amount to ethnic cleansing.

It certainly has put Keir Starmer in a tricky position. Here is Starmer's response to all of this at PMQs today.

It certainly has put Keir Starmer in a tricky position. Here is Starmer's response to all of this at PMQs today.

Does that explain the slight lack of initial direction in the Labour Party as a party of government after the election? Because they've talked a lot about the nebulous idea of economic growth. They've had various economists question whether that's possible. They've talked about, in terms of the NHS, opening a mass public consultation. What hasn't happened is an imposition of...

Does that explain the slight lack of initial direction in the Labour Party as a party of government after the election? Because they've talked a lot about the nebulous idea of economic growth. They've had various economists question whether that's possible. They've talked about, in terms of the NHS, opening a mass public consultation. What hasn't happened is an imposition of...

a actual cohesive vision for the country, which is only a surprise insofar as they've been in opposition for so long. And I think a lot of us assumed that they were fighting an election campaign in a kind of defensive mode in order to guarantee an election win.

a actual cohesive vision for the country, which is only a surprise insofar as they've been in opposition for so long. And I think a lot of us assumed that they were fighting an election campaign in a kind of defensive mode in order to guarantee an election win.

But then once you've won an election and you arrive in office, is that sort of absence, that kind of intellectual nimbleness, actually a bit of a problem and leads to a slightly directionless party of government?

But then once you've won an election and you arrive in office, is that sort of absence, that kind of intellectual nimbleness, actually a bit of a problem and leads to a slightly directionless party of government?

I keep on feeling the need to caveat when people say stuff like that with we hope. We hope. We hope. We hope.

I keep on feeling the need to caveat when people say stuff like that with we hope. We hope. We hope. We hope.

All being well.

All being well.

That if is getting bigger by the minute. As Elon Musk starts trawling through federal employees' emails, that if starts to get bigger.

That if is getting bigger by the minute. As Elon Musk starts trawling through federal employees' emails, that if starts to get bigger.