Alex Forsyth

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1,958 appearances 19 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

Alex Forsyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Newscast · Is China Replacing Workers With Robots? · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

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It certainly is. voice-verified

Yeah, well that has been true for a long time. voice-verified

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. voice-verified

And people have been crying out for a bit of continuity. voice-verified

I mean people in the sector have been crying out for a bit of continuity in that role for some time. voice-verified

Yeah, there has been some. voice-verified

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. voice-verified

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. voice-verified

period. voice-verified

And he also gave an interview voice-verified

during the time he was thinking about being Prime Minister and everyone knew that that clearly was his ambition. voice-verified

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. voice-verified

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. voice-verified

are going to be for social rent in some capacity. voice-verified

And sort of saying, well, is that Andy Burnham sort of U-turning? voice-verified

Has he changed his mind? voice-verified

Is he not able to deliver what he said he wanted to deliver? voice-verified

And the message really we've heard from ministers and others actually during the course of the day is, hang on a minute, no, you know, yes, Andy Burnham's talked about this big focus on councils getting homes built and more money going towards homes for social rent. voice-verified

But what he's doing in this instance is sort of continuing some of the work that had already been started by the previous government, led by Keir Starmer. voice-verified

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