Breakfast with Eamonn and Ellie | Monday 22nd June

I personally feel that the public will forgive him for if he makes that case and makes that argument as I just said, because we elect our MPs, the MPs overwhelmingly support Andy Burnham and I think people will be sort of in no small part relieved that Keir Starmer is gone, that actually has a bit of grace from the country, that doesn't mean he needs to go to an election, not least also because the Tories have cycled through four without going to a general election, but let's see if he can keep this momentum, I think he might,

I think he might. Candice, this is going to be put to the test in some way because we do, we haven't been talking about it much, we do have a Manchester mayoral election coming up in 30 days' time, well less than that now, and this will be perhaps the first test even for Andy Burnham as he will be, at least in some way, Prime Minister elect. Yes, I think that watching, the Manchester mayoral election is going to be so interesting

to watch because we can see where politics is going, because I think the Makerfield by-election sort of scrambled a lot of what we thought was happening in the country, and then when we move to the Manchester mayoral election it will either confirm the trends that people are talking about or also scramble them, because I think in many ways politics just seems so volatile right now, and yes, whoever runs in the Manchester by-election, will they be able to carry on Andy Burnham's legacy?

Indeed, right, well look, we're keeping an eye on number 10 there, we're looking at waiting for that podium to come out, this lectern indeed shall we call it, let's go over to Downing Street very shortly to Catherine Forster who is there with us this morning to keep an eye on what's going on there, because we don't know when the Prime Minister is going to announce his resignation, we do now believe it's pretty much baked in that he's going to, but you know, he could go out and say anything, we don't know if he's even going

to resign, he might come out fighting, who knows? We've heard from one source this morning suggesting that perhaps he might wait until later on this afternoon and try and scupper Andy Burnham's return to Westminster, but who knows, anything could happen, but one thing is clear, Kyle and Candice, thank you very much indeed, there is one story in town, isn't there, so we're going to keep you across all of the developments at Downing Street, Catherine Forster, our chief correspondent is there for us, and everything

that you're hearing and everything that you're seeing Catherine, do you think that a resignation speech could be imminent? Yes, I do, my best guess is that we are going to see the Prime Minister come out in the next hour, what am I basing that on? The huge number of press, the little comments that I've heard from Number 10, and also the fact that the podium guy was spotted going into the back entrance of Number 10 around

about half an hour ago, also it's very difficult to go to the loo when you're here, you have to be escorted by people from Number 10, speaking to somebody just now, he said, have you been to the loo? And I said, no, and I said, I'm assuming it's not a good time to go in the next hour, and he went, yeah, not a good time to go, so let us see.