I mean, is this something that enters your head at all, what Eleanor's talking about here?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, we have also an issue in central London with the lack of kids, right? So if you think about workforce, you know, we've got a real issue in primary schools that's going to feed through to secondaries.

We definitely need to have those kind of career paths for people to... stay longer.

I totally agree.

And you're absolutely right, the pension gap.

You know, I had actually a woman in my surgery, politician's anecdote, woman in my surgery this morning, who's a woman pensioner in poverty, who's really worried about, she's a private renter, she's really worried about, she won't be able to cover the tenancy as it increases.

Until we are deporting people and they know they will be deported within a week of arriving on our shores, this will not stop.

mean, £5.5

million.

I think it is somewhat apples and pears.

We know that Nigel Farage called this by-election because he knew there was a risk that he would be dragged to a by-election through a Standards Commissioner investigation that could have resulted in the Standards Committee recommending a more than 10-day suspension.

He probably would have appealed that.

We probably would have had a vote in the House of Commons which would have gone through and he would have been forced to have a by-election if the people of Clacton had signed a recall petition.

So that was already in train.

surely you want Labour to

What are the actual lines of inquiry that people in your position are looking at now?

Mm-hmm.

Well, I agree, it's hard to keep up, uh, because there's so many layers to this.

But the, uh, Parliamentary Standards Commissioner we know has had at least four letters from MPs or others asking him to investigate.

So the first one was, uh, should Nigel Farage have declared or not the £5 million from Christopher Harbourne, uh, the cryptocurrency trader based in Thailand, who had also donated £25 million to the Brexit Party Reform and iterations of that party.

So that first one was on transparency.

The second one, um, is whether he should have declared his five homes.

So just to step back, is there a legitimate, um, reason why a politician, an MP, would go and see the Bank of England Governor and say, "I am genuinely worried about the direction of this policy"?

Um, can you expand a little bit more on your approach to AI with your team?

Yeah, absolutely.

So, so, uh, first of all just say, uh, uh, we think AI has tremendous potential for our, our organization, for our staff, and for our clients.

And, uh, and I guess I could, you could bucket it into really four groups, uh, like, in terms of how we think, uh, you know, how we think about the very solutions we offer.

One is it, it makes us better communicators.

Uh, and you see this all the time in, in b- ways that are big and small.

Like, a small way would be I gotta draft an email.

So can you talk about your experience of kind of making that switch to, from the consulting space where maybe you're looking at different industries to, to insurance, and what, what about insurance appealed to you?

a lot of people think that was boris johnson and rishi sunak did that but uh joe

you are going back to reform for a second so there are two things we could do we can look at their track record so far where in local government their promises in local government elections have come up against a hard reality you know they said they would not increase council tax by the level they've had to end up doing in durham in kent they said they would find all of these workers and councils that they would be able to cut uh with their local Doge unit modelled off the Elon Musk unit in the US.

They haven't found anywhere near the savings they thought they would.

And so that is the reality of being in government at the local level.

If you look nationally, their policy positions on most issues, as others have said, RMS, they're entirely contradictory.

Two of their most senior shadow cabinet, as they call themselves, ministers, were arguing on social media about their immigration policy last week.

We know that they might deregulate crypto, for example.

We'll come to you in a second.