Dan Hodges

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TRIGGERnometry · Live Reaction to Makerfield By-Election with Dan Hodges and Julia Hartley-Brewer · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

And... I despair.

If Britain survives, why did you say that?

Because I think it is possible that it won't.

Well, I think there are a number of things.

I mean, Andy Burnham won the by-election because he was Andy Burnham, not because he was Andy Burnham, the Labour candidate.

I mean, as you said, I spent the best part of a month up there.

And if you like, the Burnham effect was real.

Roughly half of the people in the constituency seemed to know Andy Burnham personally, and the other half thought they knew him personally.

And it was noticeable yesterday, just sort of being outside polling stations,

I had people saying to me, I voted Reform.

I had some people saying I voted Restore.

And then I had people saying I voted for Andy.

So firstly, it was very clear there was a very strong personal vote for him.

And I think that will be significant moving forward because I think it does raise questions about the extent to which

The obviously incredibly successful campaign that was waged by him in Makerfield can be transported to other parts of the United Kingdom.

I mean, the other obvious factor was that this was a by-election that to all intents and purposes was primarily a referendum on Keir Starmer.

And as we know, the people of Britain have made their minds up about Keir Starmer months and months ago.

And Andy Burnham's strategy of saying, vote for me today and I'll get rid of Keir Starmer on Friday or basically next week.

um was obviously very successful at the ballot box and as we can see it playing out today seems also to be successful in terms of broader politics um but the other thing was and i you know i'm sure we'll get into this i think first i i think there was also an element of that this was a referendum

more broadly across the constituency on Nigel Farage, his offer and Reform's offer.

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