Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
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I d that wasn't I I never expected that to be to to to be the outcome and at the moment it's not, in my view, turning out to be the reality, although
As I think I also said before
The reality is whatever you think of Andy Burnham, his skills, whatever, the political fundamentals are no different to him than they were for Keir Starmer.
Um, and that's going to be the problem.
Well, I think there are two uh I think there are two things.
I mean, y just picking up on what you said about the sort of the denialism, it's a slightly more sophisticated uh position than that because uh and and uh I I I've gotta be honest, I'm in a very much in a minority view at the moment.
I am pretty certain that what w what Andy Burnham is currently doing is preparing for a a snap general election at some point some point next year.
And so everything that he is doing at the moment is basically starting to align with that and maximise his opportunity to successfully call call that election.
of which although i I you know, and I I d you know, the the the terminology that he used in Prime Minister's questions, yes, he was a very bad blunder and obviously gave Cammy Badnock the opportunity to immediately pounce on him and and and and his other political critics to to pounce on him.
there is a strategy behind what he was saying, which was
And and we saw it uh d also with the with the with the statements that was made earlier in the week about the the the sanctions on Israeli settlements.
It's part of a broader strategy that his defense of welfare.
is part of a broader strategy of shoring up his left flank.
as we approach the election, because his calculation, the calculation within Downing Street is
If he can shore up his left flank, if he can he can pull enough votes away from the Greens, if he can pull enough votes away from what I would call
the sort of radical Islamist splinter parties, if he can pour uh if he can pull away some soft lib Dems.
if he can mobilize the anti reform coalition which is forming in the country.
Then he could probably get to around about thirty-one, thirty-two percent in the opinion polls.
And that with the split on the right, that will be enough to win him uh a a majority that will last him for a f for a su a subsequent five years and give him a mandate to start to address some of the broader issues that that that that he he's identified.
So what he's doing needs to be seen within that context.
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