Brownism

Yes.

I mean, there's that historic joke about like a, a Blairite, a Brownite, and a Corbynite, um, walk into a bar, and the barman says, "What would you like to drink, Andy?"

Yeah.

[laughs]

Um, but Liz Truss, you've just laid out why all of those institutions turned against you as a righty trying to be radical.

That's not gonna fill righties with much hope because what you seem to be saying is anybody that does try to turn back time and, uh, reverse all of the Blair and Brownite reforms to our constitution, the laws they brought in, the immigration changes, and all the rest of it, is going to basically be either compared to a lettuce, in your case, or literally chewed up and spat out in less than 50 days.

So, so what, how does Babenock take on board your experience, what she's now confronted with, which is a kind of man with fluttering eyelashes that even you say is higher than a 5 out of 10? What do the conservatives now do? How do they take this on?

The lesson, I think, from what happened, and by the way, I was the only conservative prime minister who actually cut taxes.

It wasn't a hard assignment for LBC's Henry Riley.

A Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a bar and the barman says, what can I get you, Andy Burnham? I'm LBC's Henry Riley in a bar to test out that joke.

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These are all decisions for the Chancellor.

And Andy Burnham responding to that gag here, a Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a bar and the barman says, what shall I get you, Andy? In

future, when a Burnhamite walks into a bar, I want the barman to say, great to see you.

So where does he draw his support within the Labor Party? How is he defined politically? Where's his position?

I think he's in the sort of Brownite soft left wing of the party, I suppose, or soft left bit of the party.

Yeah, I think he probably is seen as quite influential because he's seen as someone who, you know, is willing to get into the nitty-gritty detail of a policy area.

He's likely to have sort of read all the big books and, you know, spoken to all the big thinkers and very much in the mold of Gordon Brown, to be honest.

You've got in Alex Burghart, the newly promoted deputy leader of the Conservative Party, someone who has the Cabinet Office brief.

He's someone who's been very critical of the Blairite political machinery and the Brownite economic structures of, that the civil service now represents post 1997.

So I think that Antonia Romeo is very much reflecting the view that she has to make the civil service work for- Politicians make this government a success tacitly, and also, I think, put a bit of spirit back in the civil service.

I mean, they've been really bloodied and bruised in recent years.