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Sep 11, 2026
Ailbhe ReaGUEST
But also interesting on that, the difference between Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer in terms of how sort of light-footed he is politically because over the summer I was picking up a lot of concern among Labour MPs about maybe approving Rosebank oil field, which is the more controversial of the two, and was preparing a piece on it, and I was thinking, "This is gonna be really tricky for Andy Burnham", you know, when he, when he gets back to Parliament.
Ailbhe ReaGUEST
We, we, you know, he was sending signals during The Makerfield by-election and stuff that he was gonna maybe look to approve both of them.
Ailbhe ReaGUEST
Um, and then really quickly you could just, you know, you, you learned privately that they, they're actually planning to delay the decision on Rosebank and probably won't do it.
Ailbhe ReaGUEST
And it just seemed to me like the political sharpness of the Burnham operation is completely different to the Keir Starmer one-
Harriet HarmanHOST
There's four things that are going on with Reform at the moment.
Harriet HarmanHOST
The first is that having swept the board in the council elections in Makerfield, they got absolutely thrashed by Andy Burnham, and that kind of stopped their momentum.
Harriet HarmanHOST
Secondly, they've got all these, um, criminal and parliamentary investigations into foreign money being used to fund Reform, and in fact, their leader in Wales actually was sent to prison for taking Russian money.
Harriet HarmanHOST
Thirdly, splits are emerging, which, uh, Ruth, um, foreshadowed, uh, long ago between those who want to go to the far right and those like Nigel Farage who want to broaden their appeal.
Carys AfokoHOST
We've had, we had Gorton and Denton where the Greens broke through, Hannah Spencer beat reform.
Carys AfokoHOST
We had actually four by-elections on the day of the Makerfield by-election, but we had the Makerfield by-election where Andy Burnham became an MP again and effectively served notice on Keir Starmer.
Carys AfokoHOST
We had the Claxton by-election over the summer.
Carys AfokoHOST
where Count Binface and Nigel Farage stood up against each other.
Carys AfokoHOST
I think that what we're going to see from the media when we do get a bit more coverage of Hoban and St Pancras, because this is in Camden, because it's the area where Primrose Hill is, because people like Polly Toynbee, the Guardian columnist, live in the constituency, like you're going to get a sense of this is like a North London elite seat.
Carys AfokoHOST
where all of these liberals who care about human rights and Gaza might vote for Zach Polanski and, you know, these mad lefties.
Carys AfokoHOST
And, like, you'll have a seat like Makerfield, which became this bellwether for the nation, which became this sign of the people that the Labour Party had left behind and that it had to bring back.
Carys AfokoHOST
And then you get a by-election somewhere like London, somewhere where, like, there is a lot of affluence.
Jake RichardsGUEST
I'd also say, you know, the conversations I've had privately, both before he became prime minister and since, he's absolutely committed to this agenda.
Jake RichardsGUEST
And he represents a constituency not dissimilar to mine, Makerfield, a lot of post-industrial towns that have very similar issues.
Jake RichardsGUEST
And I know he's a big supporter of tackling men and boys' mental health.
Christopher HopeHOST
You mentioned Andy Burnham there.
Kiran StaceyHOST
Um, their support has started to dip in the polls, and obviously Labour do have the momentum now.
Kiran StaceyHOST
So I, I think the expectation here in Westminster, we're not very far from Holborn and St Pancras, um, is that, uh, Labour should win this, and that will be a big victory for Andy Burnham because it proves that not only can he win against Reform, which he did in his own seat of Makerfield, but also f- hold off the Green surge in London.
Kiran StaceyHOST
And even given that, I think we should point out the fact that the Greens are very, very good at campaigning in terms of flooding-
Peter WalkerHOST
Yeah
Jennifer WilliamsPANELIST
... local? I was fascinated in the, um...
Jennifer WilliamsPANELIST
At the launch of the Makerfield by-election, Andy Burnham did a, did a sort of press huddle.
Jennifer WilliamsPANELIST
Somebody, it wasn't me, but somebody asked him something about tax or what tax he would put up to pay for all of his things.
Jennifer WilliamsPANELIST
And the, the immediate tax that he reached for was the hotel tax.
David WoodingGUEST
If you remember, he resigned on the Thursday.
David WoodingGUEST
The following Thursday was the Makerfield by-election, where Andy Burnham came riding into Westminster on his white charger to steal the crown off the head of Keir Starmer.
David WoodingGUEST
Now, people are speculating that perhaps he was given a deal to become Chancellor if he made a dramatic intervention.
David WoodingGUEST
That might just be spin.
David WoodingGUEST
If you remember, he resigned on the Thursday.
David WoodingGUEST
The following Thursday was the Makerfield by-election, where Andy Burnham came riding into Westminster on his white charger to steal the crown off the head of Keir Starmer.
David WoodingGUEST
Now, people are speculating that perhaps he was given a deal to become Chancellor if he made a dramatic intervention.
David WoodingGUEST
That might just be spin.
Jennifer WilliamsPANELIST
I was fascinated in the, um...
Jennifer WilliamsPANELIST
At the launch of the Makerfield by-election, Andy Burnham did a, did a sort of press huddle.
Jennifer WilliamsPANELIST
Somebody, it wasn't me, but somebody asked him something about tax or what tax he would put up to pay for all of his things, and the, the immediate tax that he reached for was the hotel tax.
Hannah WhiteHOST
Mm-hmm.
Richard JohnsonHOST
I'm not sure how well I'm explaining this to our listeners.
Richard JohnsonHOST
Uh, A £280,000 house in Andy Burnham's constituency in Makerfield last year would have paid a council tax bill of £2,152.
Richard JohnsonHOST
A £3 million house in Westminster in central London would have paid less council tax.
Richard JohnsonHOST
It would have paid £2,095 in council tax.
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