Andrew Marr
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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I mean, the Bank of England independence wasn't easy either.
I do buy that, actually.
And I'll explain why.
I mean, there is an argument.
There's a very strong argument for Ed Miliband, which I'd like to make first, which is that you need somebody atop the Treasury who understands the Treasury, who isn't going to be blocked and stopped and frustrated by the Treasury.
And Ed Miliband is probably that person.
Secondly, the bond markets and everybody else feels that the big...
Challenge for this Labour government is can they get control of public spending?
To do that, you have to do welfare reform.
And the argument is that you need a leader from the you need a figure from the soft left, trusted by the soft left of the Labour Party in Parliament to get that kind of change through.
So in a kind of Nixon to China sense, Ed Miliband might be the guy to get welfare spending down, reassure the bond markets and get on top of the Treasury.
The argument against him is that he's terribly unpopular with the unions.
He's very unpopular with the media, particularly the right wing media.
And of course, the city as well.
And the bond markets wouldn't be happy.
And all of that.
And also, I suppose he's a man who knows who he is so strongly that Andy Burnham might be worried that he would feel that he was running the Ed Miliband government and that Andy Burnham was the kind of front man.
So those are the arguments going on.
Shabana Mahmood hasn't got great economic experience, to put it politely.
But she is somebody who believes very strongly in the economics of place.
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