Dan Hodges
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1,371 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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He was a health secretary.
He's been a successful Labour mayor of Manchester.
He's just won the most important by-election in British political history.
He is not Keir Starmer.
He is not a political dilettante.
He is not someone who doesn't understand politics and what is necessary to succeed in politics.
And he does have something to use that terrible phrase, something of a political hinterland.
Now he's been on a political journey, certainly when we were working together,
I was saying this to somebody the other day, he was even more New Labour than I was.
But the reality is Andy Burnham is astute enough to understand that what worked for Tony Blair in 1997 is not going to work for Andy Burnham and Labour in 2027 or whenever.
And he has enough political experience, I think,
over the next few weeks and months to put forward something that will resemble, certainly when set against what Keir Starmer presented, something that is a coherent political program and political narrative.
This is also where I agree with Julia.
That, however, does not mean that any of the myriad problems that we're all aware of and that you've articulated obviously on this programme and will continue to articulate suddenly magically go when Keir Starmer goes and Andy Burnham, if it is Andy Burnham, comes in.
But all I'm saying is,
I don't think it is right to say, look, he didn't say anything about what he was going to do in government in the makefield by election.
So it's because he hasn't got a clue what he's going to do.
I think that's too simplistic a criticism.
I mean, again, I think that's an example of what I'm talking about.
So we've already got, you know,
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