Dan Hodges
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1,371 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Dan Hodges’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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ridicule, boring on hostility and hatred that I personally haven't seen before.
I haven't seen it at this level and I frankly can't properly quite rationalise.
so it's only when Keir Starmer goes that in a sense the picture will will clear now the other thing is I completely understand the criticism there's been of Andy Burnham flip-flopping but the point is Andy Burnham did exactly what Andy Burnham needed to do in that by-election
So if you remember when the by-election started off, and I remember having this debate at the time, the initial thing was the by-election has been going 24 hours.
It's already been framed through the prism of Brexit and his support for Brexit.
That's a disaster for him.
Make a field Brexit seat.
It's a disaster.
And I remember saying at the time, no, it's not because he's not going to get sucked up into a national sort of campaign in what is basically going to be a very, very localised campaign in terms of it's Andy, he's from here, his kids go to school here, etc, etc, etc.
He was very skillful in my view in ensuring that he didn't get sucked into a huge debate on Brexit or a debate about his economic policies or his debate about his foreign policy or a debate about welfare policy.
He basically just wandered around saying, you know, and I'm, as Julia said, I'm Andy, I'm a nice guy.
I'm from here, you like me, don't me.
And people said, yes.
Now, that does not mean that that is the Andy Burnham we're going to get in government, because the other thing is and this is where I completely disagree with you about that.
He's just like Keir Starmer for good or for real.
I mean, I know because I used to work with him.
Andy Burnham has been in politics his entire life.
Andy Burnham was an advisor.
He was a Labour MP.
He was chief secretary of the Treasury.
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