Andy Burnham has had an offer of help from an unlikely figure, Kemi Badenoch, and she has raised concerns that we might see scenes that we've seen in France this week here in the UK.

Well, there's nothing worse than having a bruise pressed by the opposition leaders, this sort of killing with kindness.

We can help you get this bill through.

We can sort out the situation.

If you haven't got it, if your backbenchers are telling you what to do, because we've very much got the situation of the tail wagging the dog, then I can lend you our support.

And This is what she was doing.

And people will point out in PMQs on Wednesday, they thought Andy Burnham had maybe got a bit of steel.

And we were talking about this earlier, but Burnham is stuck with a Corbynista parliament with a lot of left-leaning MPs.

I watch PMQs every week, and even the speakers had to intervene several times to kind of tell the prime minister, uh, shorter answers, please.

Yeah, he allowed him for a while to be verbose.

Um, actually, it's not serving him too well, 'cause also that is where he makes his mistakes.

But now it is going on too long, and he's saying, "We're not even getting through the questions on, uh, the paper, the order paper of the day." Maybe he's deliberately doing that, 'cause he knows he doesn't have, uh, the answers there.

But again, this Russia situation where he sort of went off-piste.

He wanted to say, "Oh, it was Russia's fault.

Uh, that's how the Brexit vote was done.

This, the, the Prime Minister's independence."

We need to talk about some polling that you've done which shows what the working class is, is thinking.

Yeah, so this is the latest polling of working-class voters.

Public First, the company, did it for my group that I co-founded with a friend, Clark Vasey, called Blue Collar Conservatism, and it was like, "What do working-class voters think?" And we're talking about what are the key things in their life.

Well, you wouldn't be surprised that amongst their biggest concerns are the cost of living, and the cost of energy, and the high prices of grocery, high levels of immigration, and the high cost of housing.

However, how they want to solve it, 53% of those want substantial tax cuts.

They want to feel the benefit of a, a tax reduction that will help them with their cost of living.

So that's what they want.

Only one was an independent.

They think that a general election is going to happen incredibly soon.

Well, if it does, and that happens, it is because the finances are so bad that that John Healey cannot deliver his budget on the 28th of October.

So what that is saying, and we know this already, economists have said the headwinds are so bad, the finances are so bad, we don't think he can balance his books.

We don't think he can come up with a budget.

Because if we look what's gone on, you can talk about which Labour does, the shockwaves from the Iran war.

We've got that.

But the growth has been downgraded by the OECD down to 1%, which is a problem.

And I think we should dive a bit deeper into Radcliffe's background because it really is a rags to riches story.

It's very organized.

So the smash the gangs of the Labor Party, Starmer, Shabana Mahmood, Andy Burnham, is a load of nonsense.

They're not smashing any gangs.

They're not stopping this industry.

The gangs are laughing at them.

And again, as you rightly say, the French police are looking the other way as if they don't want to get caught up in it.

In fact, they'd sooner see these dangerous, as many of them are, individuals leave France.

Th- this is something our home affairs editor, Michael Knowles, battles with a lot because it's a constant fight against him and the home office for information.

Mm.

I genuinely think that's what he believes, and he knows that's how he's going to keep his backbenchers on side.

And remember, Pac, Pat McFadden, those sort of couple of months ago, he said, "That's all the backbenchers want.

They want taxes to go up so long as we can pay for benefits." So I think that, uh, he, he, he did mean.

Uh, but you've seen more and more garbage fall out of Burnham's mouth.

So he was talking about we're going to spend our way out of debt, which most socialists, uh, think you can do.

We're going to tax our way to economic growth.

Mm

I spoke to a man in the city and he said that he liked Burnham up until Est, he appeared in the Commons for the first time.

And it's because he kept saying yes to everybody.

We can pay for this, we can pay for that.

Jim O'Neill, Lord O'Neill, who's been his advisor, his supporter, also came out.

Not only has he not taken a job now in Burnham's government, he is saying this isn't what it's about.

He doesn't understand.

We've got to make sure we can pay our bills.

And other countries were saying some pretty nasty things about the UK, including branding us the sick man of Europe.

Why exactly is it a national security emergency?

Because we've got basically a system overload in the UK, so even if I look at housing.

So for housing, we house, uh, these people who've broken into our country immediately because of the 1999 Immigration and Asylums Act.

We can't have them homeless, so they basically jump to the front of the queue.

But British citizens, we've got...

They do it on households, actually, so there's 1.4 million households waiting on council housing lists, as we'd call them, but that actually equates to a couple of million people here, and 160,000 children are living in temporary accommodation, and the average waiting time for those has been 2.9 years.

And in London, it averages about 18 years, but these people are coming straight in and going either into, uh, hotels, HMOs, house of multiple occupancy, or military bases.

What do you think the UK can learn from Donald Trump in the US with what he's done on the, the Mexico border?

We've spoken about national security, and we've had the inevitable resignation of Defense Secretary John Healey.

Oh, absolutely, because he was waiting for the defense investment plan.

He knew that the, you know, the top military were saying they needed 28 billion to, uh, make the country secure as it was.

They knew that.

We heard, uh, from Rachel Reeves, she was only planning to give 13 billion.

She didn't know how she was gonna pay for it.

She was possibly going to put taxes up.

... a massive by-election on Thursday in Makerfield.

And all these tragic cases begs the question, how on earth did we end up here?

Well, it does.

And as I said, it hasn't been quick in coming.

It has gathered up for some time.

So we look back and we say the first instance was possibly the MacPherson report.

And this was after the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

And this, the report concluded in 1999 that the investigation was marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of leadership.

And talking about holding people to account, what about this defund the police movement and the impact that's had?

Esther, things are heating up.

Yeah, temperatures are soaring, whether that's the weather or whether that is in politics, because Tony Blair has absolutely thrown a hand grenade into the Labour Party.

He gave an eviscerating 5,600 page report about what he thought Starmer was getting wrong.

And the key things which we all know, tax is too high, unemployment is too high, energy bills are too high and immigration is too high.

All of which laid at the feet of Starmer there.

All of which he said you are taking a wrong, turning a wrong direction.

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