Oct 1, 2026 · 38 min · 12 segments
Andy Burnham can deliver speeches, and TikToks - but can he deliver on his promises? Will people outside Labour's conference still find hope, after what looks likely to be a hard budget at the end of…
Roger HearingHostYou know, he's a northern lad who's clearly well behind the bar, knows how to pull a pint with a head on it, which I think he might actually be the first prime minister in the history of the UK to be able to do that.
You don't get any of these southern Jesse's prime ministers talking about pork scratchings, do you? So, I mean, he is.
But no, I mean, and I have to say, you know, he did a pretty good speech in terms of just delivery, sound, you know, impact, waiting for laughs, waiting for reaction, all the technical stuff.
But the thing is, it's all, you know, you campaign in poetry and you govern in prose, and the prose is coming pretty fast.
yeah and the question is are the bond vigilantes gonna be out to get him if he if he delivers a budget uh where i mean i feel like he if he's if he's smart he'd be able to deliver a budget where we'd say we aren't going to spend more but here are the growth consequences of what we want to do yes
he's going no but He's at least suggested that with the headline thing, which is the social care and all that, and he signalled, where's the money coming from? Well, he'll get rid of the triple lock after the next election.
You know, he's a northern lad who's clearly well behind the bar, knows how to pull a pint with a head on it, which I think he might actually be the first prime minister in the history of the UK to be able to do that.
You don't get any of these southern Jesse's prime ministers talking about pork scratchings, do you? So, I mean, he is.
But no, I mean, and I have to say, you know, he did a pretty good speech in terms of just delivery, sound, you know, impact, waiting for laughs, waiting for reaction, all the technical stuff.
But the thing is, it's all, you know, you campaign in poetry and you govern in prose, and the prose is coming pretty fast.
yeah and the question is are the bond vigilantes gonna be out to get him if he if he delivers a budget uh where i mean i feel like he if he's if he's smart he'd be able to deliver a budget where we'd say we aren't going to spend more but here are the growth consequences of what we want to do yes
he's going no but He's at least suggested that with the headline thing, which is the social care and all that, and he signalled, where's the money coming from? Well, he'll get rid of the triple lock after the next election.
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