no, that was up to seven. i think that was seven. it might be my souvlaki talking, but yes. so it s a big debate with all of the parties who are fielding candidates in the election being represented. and as a result of that, what you have is of course, the sort of battle royale going on between labour and the tories, but you have an opportunity to hear from a much broader rainbow of political opinion. yeah, it means on the one hand it s less focused than when it was starmer versus sunak on tuesday, and it sjust two people going head to head on a range of issues. it becomes a bit more sprawling, but equally it feels more like britain because you re hearing about wales and hearing about scotland. sure. and it s a reflection also of the fact that there are lots of different kinds of political races in lots of different kinds of constituencies. there are races that are between the snp and the tories in some parts of more rural scotland they tend to be. there are of course that ar
i m just thinking of other milestones that have happened today. labours clause five meeting reallyjargony. but it s an important bit because the labour party is their very process compared to other parties. and one of the big parts of the process is this meeting which is called clause five, because of the bit of the labour party constitution that says you ve got to do this, which is where all the bigwigs from the unions, different interest groups of labor, come together to basically sign off the manifesto, which they did today. they did apart from unite the union, which gave them three million quid last time round. but they are unhappy about some of the particular commitments or lack of commitments that they see when it comes to fire and rehire, which is one of the things meant to get rid of the practice that companies like ba did were they sacked a lot of staff and then took them back on and less good terms and conditions and unite believes that the labor plan for that isn t watertigh