Annabel Tiffin

Yeah, Makerfield, which, you know, if I'm absolutely honest, I am the political editor for the Northwest, but I hadn't really been to Makerfield. Well, it isn't actually a place, to be fair. Yeah, nobody's been to Makerfield. Nobody's been to Makerfield. It's a suffix. It's basically from Ashton in Makerfield and Ince in Makerfield. But yeah, so there's no such place as Makerfield. So if you are hoping to visit it, you can't. The nearest is Ashton in Makerfield. But we hadn't.

Really paid that much attention to it until now because it was such a safe red wall seat. Also we thought obviously at the 2024 election it wasn't so much. But it's never been one that's been necessarily on our radar, but it suddenly is now. Pinging away on the radar. Lara, you were there for the Sunday Times recently. I was going to say what was the temperature, but I mean the temperature was high everywhere this week. I meant sort of metaphorically.

Ja jotkut, joita hän on vain tykkäynyt ja niin edelleen. Mutta sanoisin vain, että hän ei ole syntynyt ja syntynyt Makerfieldissa. Hän on itse asiassa syntynyt Merseysideen. Robert Kenyon on syntynyt Makerfieldissa pitkän aikaa. He ovat kuitenkin hyperlokalaisia, kuten Andy Burnham ja Robert Kenyon sanoivat. Mutta Andy Burnham ei ole syntynyt Merseysideen.

But yeah, so when I was out there the other day, I have to say nobody really spoke to me about the posts that he's done in the past. They just like him for the fact that he is a very local guy and he seems like somebody they can relate to. But on the other hand, it does depend where you are a little bit. So Platte Bridge, which is one area of Makerfield, it's sort of made up of all these

It's very much reform land. You drive down the main road there, and there are reform posters everywhere. But if you're in Ashton, most people only were talking about Andy Burnham, and going back exactly to what you said before, that they just want Starmer out, is what they were saying, and that actually Andy Burnham is the way to do that. Also going back to what you were saying about how people feel about that a little bit,

Jotkut ymmärtävät, että he ovat, kuten kirjoitin viime aikoina, brittisen poliitikon epikenttä. Mutta he tuntuvat hieman myyntiä siitä, koska he tuntuvat, että onko Josh Simons, aiemmin MP, juuri tullut takaisin, jotta Andy Burnham voisi...

Then stand in this seat. And what will that mean for them? Is he actually going to be a proper MP for them? So as far as I'm concerned, and hands up, I think I've said it to you before, hands up, totally honest, I've just come back from my holidays. So I've...

Oh, no he's the same. He is the same. I mean, you know, he's made no bones, has he, for a long time about having political ambitions. Although interestingly, and I do go back quite a few years with him, as you said, I was sitting next to him at an event.

During the Theresa May days. And he said, she was having some tough times. And he said, I can't understand anybody who'd want to be prime minister. And I pointed out, well, you have tried twice by trying to be leader of the Labour Party twice. But he said, oh God, no, but obviously things have changed a lot since then. He has, he obviously tried for the Gorton and Denton by-election, didn't he? And that was stopped.

Andyn asia on se, että hän on tullut tilanteeseen, jossa sitä, mitä hän haluaa saavuttaa, ei voi tehdä Ympäristöstäkaan. Hän on sanonut, että hän pitää mennä takaisin Westminsteriin, kuten hän sanoi, muuttaa poliitikaa, muuttaa Labour-partia. Mutta hän on yleensä...

Well, I hope he's the same person, because, you know, you would say, a lot of people would say, well, he's done an awful lot of good for Greater Manchester, whether that can be translated then into if he did become leader of the Labour Party. I don't know. I mean, he has, he's received an awful lot of praise.

Since he came in to be mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017, he's won three rounds of that. And in the last one, as you all know, he won every single award in Greater Manchester. You couldn't be more popular. I think he's also come across a lot of criticism in that his critics have branded him almost like sort of.

A weather vane that his views blow with the political winds. And we've seen that a little bit over the last, since the sort of campaigns going back to Brexit. You know, he did say back in September that he expressed a desire to see the UK rejoin the European Union. However, now he's saying he's not going to be advocating for this in the maker field by election. He's a man with a lot of political ambition. He always has done. And this is the next stage for him, isn't it? To get back.

No, sanoisin vain, että kun puhutaan ympäristöjä, niin ei muuta kuin koko Clean Air Zonein ristiriita, joka oli melkein Andy Burnhams... No, se oli aivan pitkällä aikavälillä. Ja luulen, että TikTok-videossa, jossa puhuttiin, hän puhui siitä myös, että tämä oli jotain, jota hän tuntui...

He says was forced upon him by the Boris Johnson government. But there'll be a lot of people. As you said, there's not great public transport in Mayfield. There's none of the trams. So they do rely on their cars. There's a lot of people there that drive white vans like Mr. Kenyon. And they will be saying, well, you know, you wanted to impose a charge on us. It hasn't happened, of course.

Kyllä, ja se olisi ollut noin 60 rupiaa suurimmilla poliittisilla vehikkoilla. Ja hän on saanut sen käsittämään, ja sen jälkeen on saanut elettäväksi busseja, jotta ilmastonmuutoksen on parantunut. Ja hän sanoisi, että paljon rahaa, jota hän on saanut, hän on saanut sen tekemään busseilla. Mutta se on jotain, joka on häneltä hieman. Ja todennäköisesti paljon ihmisiä tuntui hyvin rauhassa ilmastonmuutoksen kanssa. Mutta kuten sanoimme, se ei itse asiassa tapahtunut.