Anoosh Chakelian

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Pod Save the UK · Burnham’s Britain & Cabinet Pic ‘n’ Mix w/ Anoosh Chakelian · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

So I wouldn't say they were playing a briefing game in that sense, but I think they were certainly pleased that they've managed to keep it under wraps and also that, you know, the press didn't get a whiff of it.

But I think he was, ultimately he was frustrated at all of the speculation and he didn't want to give these things away before he became prime minister.

Yeah, I mean, I think they would argue that they are basically making choices.

So we have chosen not to go ahead with X policy that would have cost 1.1 ever billion to go ahead with Y policy.

And politics is all about choices and priorities and making difficult decisions.

What Darren Jones's argument, and he was chief secretary to the Treasury, and then he had this role sort of in number 10, was...

That policy was actually unfunded.

I'm not sure if that's the best advertisement for Labour's rectitude under Keir Starmer to say we have this flagship policy that we haven't actually funded.

His argument is, you know, we were going to find that money in some way, you know, before the next election.

budget or spending review or whatever so you can't actually say that that money is available for this policy and without that money it's either it just means more borrowing so there's going to be I think there are going to be pot shots because

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves felt that when they came in, they started turning the economy around and putting it on a more solid footing.

And that is fair for them to argue that.

And they worry that someone coming in and announcing loads of policies that would cost a fair bit without fully explaining how they're going to spend them takes us back to the days before Labour came in and we had sort of the chaotic Liz Truss situation.

Blip.

I was going to call it era, but more of a blip.

And the price of borrowing is high.

And, you know, Labour promised in its manifesto it wouldn't raise those three big taxes.

And you have the fiscal rules to keep within as well.

So I think I think it is tricky for Burnham because he wants to announce all of these things to make it look like he's doing something for people's day to day lives in the immediate term.

But every journalist and it seems people from the previous administration who don't seem to wish him particularly well are going to ask, how are you going to pay for it?

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