Alex Forsyth

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1,958 appearances 19 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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

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Newscast · Andy Burnham's (Un)Funded Tax Cut · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

seemed to be quite carefully planned as well, you know, with the kind of Shabana Mahmood and Ed Miliband rumoured to be vying for the Chancellor job, walked up together with their arms around each other. voice-verified

And it was a little bit echoes of that around the Cabinet table. voice-verified

Lucy Powell sat next to the Prime Minister, as we know, somebody that has been a key ally of Andy Burnham's for some time and now landed the job of Education Secretary as well as being the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, which is why she had the seat that she did. voice-verified

I mean, it kind of was, as you expect, lots of smiling faces, a big round of applause for Andy Burnham as he voice-verified

took his seat there. voice-verified

There was a lot of chat from him about the kind of team that he'd gathered. voice-verified

But I think in terms of the substance beyond what you'd expect around this sort of fairly buoyant mood that emerged from the cabinet, it was this focus on the cost of living and this talk that Andy Burnham was giving to them about the need for reprioritisation. voice-verified

And as Faisal was saying, you know, this whole thing about that on domestic electricity bills, it's meant to be a symbol of what this government is all about, which is voice-verified

making decisions to move money from one thing to focus on the cost of living. voice-verified

That's the signal they want to get out today. voice-verified

And that's exactly the message that Andy Burnham had for the cabinet at the top. voice-verified

And if you read between the lines of what he was saying there, he was effectively saying, I'm going to need you all to make some tough choices in your departments. voice-verified

so that we can focus more and focus more money, to put it bluntly, on trying to make things a little bit better for people. voice-verified

And I think, you know, in the room today, that appears to be fairly well received, as you would expect. voice-verified

I guess the crunchy bit will come to what those decisions are and what has to go to free up some money on the stuff that Andy Burnham wants to do. voice-verified

Well, I mean, I guess the option is always available. voice-verified

I mean, there's nothing in law that says the government can't break its manifesto pledges because we know that previous governments frequently have broken their manifesto pledges. voice-verified

But I think politically, it's pretty difficult for Andy Burnham on a few fronts. voice-verified

Firstly, I think he looked at what Keir Starmer did when he took office and Keir Starmer himself was acknowledged that it was a mistake to be quite so doom and gloomy around the way things were and including the public finances. voice-verified

in his initial weeks and months in office. voice-verified

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