Alex Forsyth

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

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

And I think Andy Burnham is quite deliberately trying to avoid that and inject a little bit more kind of optimism and hope. voice-verified

That's even the language that Andy Burnham is using. voice-verified

So I think that's kind of the first thing. voice-verified

So that would just make it difficult to make the argument about, oh, my goodness, everything is terrible when you're trying to say, I've got a plan, I've got solutions and I'm hopeful for the future. voice-verified

The second thing about this is that Andy Burnham has given some indications on where he is on tax. voice-verified

Not many, because we know that he hasn't done like a billion interviews in between the point of being elected Mayfield MP and taking office on Monday. voice-verified

But what he has signalled is that he's looking for – and this comes back to the point about the briefing he gave to journalists in the Garden of Downing Street on Monday – flexibility within the manifesto pledges and the fiscal rules. voice-verified

And I think that is much more likely – voice-verified

to be where he's focusing his attention. voice-verified

So he's already signalled some stuff on taxation around maybe shifting the kind of taxes that businesses pay so that high street businesses, including pubs, pay a bit less and then kind of big retailers with warehouses out of town pay a bit more. voice-verified

That was an early indication of something he might consider. voice-verified

He has spoken again on Monday about this idea about the personal threshold for income tax. voice-verified

So basically the personal allowance, the point at which you start paying income tax. voice-verified

He said he wants to look at it, though he recognised it would be really difficult and expensive, let's be honest, to change that. voice-verified

And then there's other stuff, you know, like when he spoke to Gary Lineker and he didn't entirely rule out the possibility of some sort of wealth tax. voice-verified

Now, I think that that doesn't necessarily mean an annual wealth tax in the way that some people advocate, but wealth voice-verified

perhaps it's something about looking again at where the assets are taxed versus income. voice-verified

I mean, this is all the speculation that has been out there in the ether. voice-verified

And I just instinctively think that might be more the space that Andy Burnham is in, not least because not from Labour MPs and not from Andy Burnham himself, he says he has got the legitimacy to lead because we live in a parliamentary democracy. voice-verified

But of course, he's already facing calls from some of the opposition parties saying, where is your mandate? voice-verified

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