Alex Forsyth
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1,720 appearances
17 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Alex Forsyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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like a panther helped.
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Probably because I was Manning the Fourth.
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It's the
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It certainly is.
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Yeah, well that has been true for a long time.
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But Matthew Pennicook has stayed through a few little different administrations, so he's a yeah, he's one of the longer lasting housing ministers for sure.
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And people have been crying out for a bit of continuity.
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I mean people in the sector have been crying out for a bit of continuity in that role for some time.
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Yeah, there has been some.
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The politics around this is kind of directly linked to Andy Burnham and the fact that really, even when he was vying to be Prime Minister, even when he was vying to be the MP for Makerfield, he made no secret of the fact that he puts a lot of stock by, in particular, council housing.
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You know, he's talked about in his first speech he gave um when he was gonna be prime minister, he talked about the biggest kind of council house building boom in the post-war.
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period.
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And he also gave an interview
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during the time he was thinking about being Prime Minister and everyone knew that that clearly was his ambition.
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He gave an interview during that when he talked about wanting this £39 billion pot of money to mostly go on homes for social rent rather than other types of affordable housing, which, to put it simply, can actually be a bit more expensive.
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So now that this has come out and there's been this breakdown, as Tara rightly says, of previously announced funding and exactly where it's going to go, some people are pointing to the fact that only 60% of these new homes.
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are going to be for social rent in some capacity.
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And sort of saying, well, is that Andy Burnham sort of U-turning?
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Has he changed his mind?
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Is he not able to deliver what he said he wanted to deliver?
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