that looks like a real blunder. and a cabinet minister said to me, you ve got a $100 million bill lying on the floor and you don t pick it up. so it s notjust the mistake, it s also the lost opportunity of the mistake. and laura, last night when we did newscast, you mentioned that text you d had about somebody saying, this is just the worst operation ever. and as i was going to bed last night, i was like, i wish i d asked laura more about that, because that s an amazing quote. not to get you to reveal your sources, but what sort of people are messaging you with that stuff now? is this, like, candidates? is this, like, former friends of rishi sunak? i think it s what. the sense i have, henry, and i don t know if you would agree with this, is that what is happening now, it seems to me almost every day, the group of people who are still really putting their shoulder to the wheel in this campaign is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. and there are more people, including
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