 You went there to go and catch up with Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party in the UK, who looks likely to actually, you know, surprisingly possibly take out the selection next week. And then you also met with the economist of the moment, Torma Piketty, in France. Did you bring back any ideas from either of them that can help the Labour Party here? Well, the meeting with the Labour Party, it was quite good. I met with the officials in the party, the secretary in McNichol and some of the people around him, just to look at the organisation that they've embarked on for the general election. Did you not meet with Ed Miliband himself? And I met with Ed after that. And he was accompanied by Alistair Campbell and David Axelrod. He was head of Obama's campaign for his two presidential elections. So I didn't have a lot of conversation with them about tactics. I met with Ed for about 10 minutes. Very busy at the moment, obviously. He was certainly very relaxed, very confident. And following the commentary for the week I was there, it's looking pretty good for me. The day I left Friday, a poll had come out that showed that the Conservatives had moved maybe a point and a half ahead in the polls. But it's very... I mean, it's first past the post there. And they talk about the polls where they are. In particular, I guess, for Scotland, which has been a Labour stronghold. There's now the Scottish Nationalist Party, which seems to be taking off. But the commentary they have about it all doesn't seem to suggest or respect the fact that actually electorate by electorate the result may be different from one to the other. So they give the aggregate sort of poll results and extrapolate across the entire electorate. And I just don't think talking to people and where they're at that it's necessarily going to be the way people talk about. Having said all that, I mean, I think it's... What are you saying that you don't think Labour's going to win it? Oh, no, no. Let's talk about a clean sweep in Scotland, for example, of the 59 seats that the SNP is going to get all of them. The polls, you know, they show the SNP doing very well, but that doesn't necessarily lead to the conclusion that they will take every seat. Having said that, I mean, overall, the sense I get is that Ed Miliband will have a good chance of forming the government after next Thursday. Isn't this a surprise? I mean, six months ago, the guy was polling at 18% popularity. What is he doing right? Well, Labour has been polling ahead of the Conservatives for some time. I think the real story, and that is why David Cameron has been doing so badly. I mean, he is not popular talking to people, including, you know, Sunday evening I was there with a lot of Conservative supporters. He is not popular amongst a lot of people, including his own. So, when you say that... Ed Miliband has got a lot better, and he's performed a lot better, and for the campaign, he's performed very well in terms of the campaign. Is this not about Ed Miliband winning, but about the Tories losing? No, I think Ed Miliband has picked up his game, and he's giving more confidence. But, you know, you have to say there's a lot of anxiety about just the way David Cameron and George Osborne have run the government, and the austerity cuts that's now being felt on things like the National Health Service, and things like that. So, what have you learned from Ed Miliband and his party about, you know, ways that you could improve your party here? Well, I guess I was focused on the organisational things for the campaign, which is what I was talking to Ian McNichol about, and his people. And so, they have a very strong digital campaign. Their digital engagement is very good in terms of fundraising and terms of getting... Well, I mean, their priorities there are different at the moment. I mean, one of the biggest issues there is what's going to happen with their relationship with Europe. David Cameron is promising the referendum. I mean, he sort of simply blurted out unplanned and unplanned sort of way. Labour is very firmly they need to be part of Europe. That's a big issue at the moment, and the impact of the austerity cuts is also very big in a way that, I mean, those just aren't issues here. So, the issues are different at the time. So, I was more keen to see what they're doing organisational because that is something we need to lift our game on. Is Ed Miliband as much of a geek as he seems? He was very charming and very warm and, as I say, pretty relaxed, very humorous. We had a good little exchange. So, yeah, he's a nice guy. He's a pretty formidable team around him in the form of Alistair Campbell and David Axelrod, you know, pretty impressive people. OK, so...