
Claire Ainslie
Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal at the Progressive Policy Institute and former Executive Director of Policy to Keir Starmer (2020–22).
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Sep 29, 2026
What are Andy Burnham's plans for the triple lock?
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Claire AinslieGUEST
There was, with that slogan of change, I think people probably projected a lot of what they wanted onto that.

Claire AinslieGUEST
And I think that the ambiguity in that change slogan, it could maybe mean all things to all people.

Claire AinslieGUEST
And I think Andy's learned from that and said, I'm gonna tell you today what I've got pure conviction about, And that's what I'm going for.
What went wrong for Keir Starmer? ft. Claire Ainsley
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18:08Jeremiah JohnsonHOST
If I was in charge, I don't know what I would do because It does not seem like an enviable position to be in to have to run the United Kingdom right now.

Claire AinsleyGUEST
Yeah, and I think we're not high spending compared to or high taxing compared to quite a number of other countries in Europe.

Claire AinsleyGUEST
And certainly people feel that they are being taxed more and they feel they are not getting better services as a result.

Claire AinsleyGUEST
And you can appreciate all the social and economic problems that are coming with that.

Claire AinsleyGUEST
And that sort of political disengagement from what is government for? where we've always had a lot of association with the NHS, and we're not as probably a statist, as I say, as parts of Europe, we are certainly like fond of our NHS, we feel that our welfare state is a good thing that helps people from sort of falling through the floor.
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28:37Jeremiah JohnsonHOST
And I really feel like this is kind of kind of stolen the breath from the center-left parties that they can no longer differentiate themselves in that way to some extent.
