 Keir Starmer took a few hours to break his silence after the Labour's catastrophic defeat in Hartlepool was announced. However, he clearly didn't spend that time preparing anything concrete to say. Here he is looking pretty irritated and saying nothing of substance on the BBC. This is not a question of left or right. It's a question of whether we're facing the country. We have changed as a party, but we've not made a strong enough case to the country. We've lost that connection, that trust, and I intend to rebuild that and do whatever is necessary to rebuild that trust. But what does change mean in, say, policy terms? It means stopping as a party quarrelling amongst ourselves, looking internally and facing the country and setting out that bold vision for a better Britain. Sorry, Keir, what is that vision? Changing. In fact, it's the change that I will bring about. John McCluskey, United General Secretary, says people don't know what you stand for. What is that vision? Our vision is of a country that ends the injustice and inequality that millions of people face every day. But fundamentally, we have to show that we are facing the country, that we've learnt the lessons of this bitterly disappointing set of results. You say you take personal responsibility for the results. Are you up to the job of Labour Party leader? Yes, and I intend not only to take responsibility for the results, but to take responsibility for fixing things. And I will set out what change is needed over the next few days, but I'm absolutely clear in my mind and absolutely determined to do whatever is necessary to fix things and to make sure we can make that case to the country in a compelling way. What are you going to change over the next few days? What are you referring to? I will set out what we need to do to reconnect the Labour Party to the voters that have cast their verdict on us last night, particularly in places like Hartlepool. We have changed as a party. We have changed as a party, but we need to go further and we need to set out that strong case to the country. We have not done that. So you're going to set out a new policy agenda, is that what you're saying? I am going to set out a strong case to the country, learn the lessons of the elections that have come in so far and accept that we must reconnect and rebuild trust with working people, particularly in places like Hartlepool. Can you give us any sort of indication of what it is you're going to focus on? Well, I'm not going to set out a policy agenda in this interview, but I'm going to set out how we reconnect and rebuild that trust. He's like a parody of himself, like a parody of a politician who believes in absolutely nothing. So we say we're going to change. She's asked what does change mean? Oh, we're going to stop squabbling. We're going to set out a bold vision. Well, what is that bold vision? Our vision is to face the country. We're going to face the country and stop talking about ourselves. So what are you going to do? What are you going to change? Well, I'll reconnect with the voters we lost, but how? I mean, how are you going to appeal to them? I'll look outwards instead of looking inwards, twirling, twirling all the time. I mean, it's embarrassing. She says, do you have any policies? Well, I'm not going to tell you my policies on the television. Why would I tell you my policies here on the television? That would be a ridiculous thing to do. I mean, Aaron, that was almost like awkward to watch, wasn't it? Well, did you watch the end of it? I mean, we don't have the end of the clip, but basically she's kind of like, we're obviously not going anywhere. She, you know, she audibly says this and she's just like, she just finished there and he's like, yeah, yeah. I mean, she's just like, this guy's a clown. And the BBC, A, they are quite deferential to politicians, even with Jeremy Corbyn. You wouldn't hear that on air, really. And it's a night of the realm, you know, that they're meant to be like, we are not worthy. And she's just like, you're clearly an idiot. And also, where this was taking place, Michael, Keir Starmer, oh, by the way, being a human rights lawyer, perfectly fine thing, living in London, perfectly fine thing. But these are the sort of political cliches. Keir Starmer, Romainer, Sir, Establishment, London, Human Rights Law, lives in zone one, completely out such as the rest of the country. Where does he do the interview? And how's the parliament? What's behind him? Some parliamentary, you know, some folios of various parliamentary nonsense and data and whatnot. Where's Boris Johnson? Boris Johnson is in Hartlepool, next to a ship, hundreds of years old, talking to people, thumbs up, face mask on. Who's more relatable, Michael? Keir Starmer has no policy, no idea, no organisational competence. And worst of all, I think actually, in particular, we do live in an era of populism. I'm sorry for the hashtag FBPE crowd, you don't want to admit that, but we are. He is so unlikable. I've said this repeatedly. Nobody watches that guy, and I'm really rooting for him. And some people might not look like Corbyn. A lot of people had that feeling with Jeremy Corbyn. I'm really rooting for him. Yeah, go on. At least he knows what he believes in. Nobody can say this about Keir Starmer. He's a non-entity who is so dislikable immediately. And I think the fact that he was doing that interview in what was, you know, the aesthetics of it were just so politically distant for what was happening in Hartlepool. That dissonance between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer embodied so much for me. And it just shows, actually, Keir Starmer, the grown-ups are back in charge. Well, you know what? A media professional wouldn't be doing that interview there. So not only is Keir Starmer not good enough, but nor are the people around him. He's been Labour leader for a year. And presumably he wanted to be Labour leader for a while before he stood to be Labour leader. We know it was a very well-prepared leadership campaign. Yet anytime he, or indeed anyone else in the party, is asked, what's your vision? Very basic question, actually, for a politician. It's not a question really intended to catch people out, or it shouldn't be. He looks terrified. Our vision is to look out to the country. Our vision is to change the party. I mean, these are like subheadings. It's like subheadings of a strategy you could have, but they still haven't filled in the box. To be in that job for over a year and not have anything to say to that question, I just find it difficult to fathom. It just seems like gross negligence, gross incompetence from people who are presumably on quite good salaries. I suppose maybe you can't come up with a vision if you don't believe in anything. I suppose that's probably the easiest explanation for what's going on here. They're asking Starmer, what do you believe in? He says, I believe in having values. I believe in believing things. I believe in showing the country that I believe in something. He's like, what do you believe? I'm not telling you that. I'm not giving that away. People with values, if you have values, it's about being honest. How do I know you're honest? It's because you act with honesty, you know, or you're generous. There are actions that you express, which are, they distil the idea of generosity. Keith, someone's like, I have values. I am electable. You see this nonsense coming out, by the way, from Steve Reed, West Street, and all sorts of people. We've become more electable. The electors just don't know it yet. You've got this complete detachment from these words and what they actually mean. This is like political dadaism. This is like if Pablo Picasso was trying to create a politician. It's like the Guernica. One horse is head going this way, and that going this way, and the whole thing's just a complete mess. It's non-representational. None of it's actually meant to make any sense. It's not meant to look like the real world. That's what Keir Starmer interviews increasingly look like. You mentioned Boris Johnson choosing a better spot for his national broadcast, and Keir Starmer. We do have that for you, so let's take a look. This was Boris Johnson in Hartlepool with the town's new Tory MP, Jill Mortimer. A massive thank you to, first of all, to the people of Hartlepool for placing their confidence in us, in the Conservatives. I want to congratulate Jill on this fantastic campaign. I think that she's been a wonderful candidate and fought very, very hard for it. I think she'll be a wonderful MP. And for me, what this means is that I think that it's a mandate for us to continue to deliver, not just for the people of Hartlepool, not just for the people of the Northeast, but across the whole of the country. And I think if there's a lesson out of this whole election campaign, the whole election, local election campaign across the whole of the UK, it's that the public want politicians to get on with focusing on their needs and their priorities. So coming through the pandemic and making sure that we then build back better, and you can see some of the evidence of economic confidence that the Bank of England's been talking about, that the prospects of a really strong rebound in the second half of the year. I think people want us to focus on that. And I think that here in Hartlepool, clearly people were, this is a place that voted for Brexit and we got Brexit done, and then we're able to do other things, thanks to that. As Aaron said, very importantly, he didn't do that speech from Parliament. He went to Hartlepool, he's doing it in front of a historic ship. There's some narrative there. You can hear the sea gulls, it just seems less miserable. Obviously, it's easier when you've won to do that TV interview than it is if you've lost, but nonetheless. The thing Boris Johnson didn't say is, ah, yes, the reason we won is because we're looking outwards. The reason we won is because we have values. The reason we won is because we have a vision. No, he actually filled out the blanks. So he said, people like it when things are delivered. Like we delivered Brexit. Like we got people through the pandemic. Now we've got free ports in Hartlepool. I mean, free ports are a terrible idea, by the way. But at least you're naming something. You're saying something. There was some content there, and Keir Starmer has nothing in response to that. I mean, why would you vote for the guy who's telling you, I have values, then the person who's saying, I've actually done these things. No, I've done things. I've done these things. It's concrete. It's real. You feel like the guy is not actually terrified when he's speaking to a camera. By the way, compare how Keir Starmer has received in the Prime Minister's questions. By the way, nobody watches. Nobody watches Prime Minister's questions. Very interesting. Yep, you can land a every six months. It might get on the school news gray. But on an everyday basis, granular detail. Nobody cares. Keir Starmer is there, but the hashtags, all the second referendum people. Fantastic. This is forensic. People seem to think that he said things which mean Boris Johnson is going to go to prison. He's going to resign. I don't know. You know, this kind of strange. They think that politics is like a true crime podcast. Although we're going to get some sort of Robert Muller figure to arrest Boris Johnson, wheel him off to, you know, the Pentonville prison. That's not going to happen, by the way. This is the reality. People haven't got huge asks from politicians. They want you to solve that you wouldn't solve problems. And they don't want you to create any new ones. That's it. And they saw Brexit as a problem. You might disagree with that, but they thought Britain being in the EU was a problem. Enough people thought that was a problem. There was a referendum. It became a wedge issue. Boris Johnson appears. Again, we can have that conversation. Maybe there's going to be major implications going forward. But right now it looks like the Tories have, they've solved that problem. The vaccines looks like they solved that problem. Furlough looks like they solved that problem. Now, of course, it's easier for governments to pitch themselves that there are many things they haven't solved. 120,000 people have died and people are saying, well, you know, Boris Johnson, he's associated with getting things done. Yes, because Labour don't talk about the things he hasn't done. Of course, Keir Starmer is the biggest asset to Boris Johnson, the Tories right now. I said this the day that Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party. Keir Starmer is this guy is like the wingman for Boris Johnson in 2021.