Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
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Dan Hodges’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Second thing was just the practicalities of the transition timetable.
He and his team thought they would have up until the just the beginning of Labour Party conference, at which point Keir Starmer would step down and they would have the the preceding months to sort of put a strategy in place.
Obviously they didn't have that opportunity, so they're kind of making stu stuff up on the hoof, which is again
why they're sort of going for the lower lower hang fruit in terms of in terms of policy development.
But the other thing is
as I say, he is facing the same strategic political dilemmas that his predecessor and other prime ministers have faced, which is how do you actually solve the intractable problems?
How do you solve the problem of the small boats?
How do you deal with the with the fact that Britain is basically a country that is that is broke?
How do you deal with the threat of Putin?
How do you deal with the big strategic issues?
And the reality is Andy Burnham's no closer to answering those questions than uh than than than anyone else at the moment.
Yeah, apart from that, everything's fine.
But uh yeah.
No, I mean that you know, that's exactly right.
And I think, you know, anybody who thinks Andy Burnham is just suddenly gonna go, you know, click his fingers and then magically solve all of these problems is deluding themselves.
I mean, I think
you know, uh uh I I talked about the big strategic problems that he's facing, the country's facing.
The reality is
These are are intra seem at the moment seemingly intractable.
problems for a reason because nobody's actually come up with a come up with a you know of of of any political persuasion has managed to come up with a with a uh with a solution to them.
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