Dan Hodges

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

Andy Burnham has been an MP, I think, for like, what, five hours now, five or six hours now.

Julia was already criticising him for it, for the fact that he's appointing Ed Miliband as his chancellor.

I've seen Ed Miliband touted as his chancellor.

I've also, and I've written it myself, I've also seen it touted that he may, and I think this chills, this terrifies me even more frankly, that he may well retain Rachel Reeves as his chancellor to reassure the markets.

I've seen people talk, I've seen reports that Yvette Cooper might be his chancellor.

I saw a report that Lou Hay was gonna be his chancellor.

Now, I am not saying for a moment that if Ed Miliband is brought in as Chancellor, all of Britain's problems will be solved.

But what I am saying is, once again, the criticism of Andy Burnham

is a criticism that is not at the moment rooted in anything that Andy Burnham has actually said or done or even close, come even, even, even close.

Look, I'm in danger of slipping into sort of becoming Andy Burnham spokesman on this programme, but let me try.

That's why we brought you on.

Let me articulate it in a sort of a broader context and one that I think we will all grasp.

It seems to me, and I watch a lot of what you both talk about, I think we would all probably agree that one of the fundamental sort of fissures in British politics, in British society, is the fact... Julie was talking about the success of Nigel Farage and reform.

is that over the last 10, 20, 30 years, we have had a politics that has been shaped by a small... I'm going to be slightly simplistic here, but let's roll with it.

A small sort of Westminster clique, elite, what have you, that has governed in a way that a significant section of the British electorate

Primarily, if you want to call white working class lives outside of the big traditional metropolitan heartlands, particularly in the north of England, what has become badged primarily as red wall Britain?

was basically cast aside and was viewed by both of the main political parties as at best as expendable and at worst as an obstacle to the great liberal sort of progressive Britain that the two parties wanted to build.

Now, if you're looking for Andy Burnham's identity, whatever criticisms you have of him,

Andy Burnham is someone, and we saw this in Maker Field, we've just seen this in Maker Field, is someone whose, if you like, political identity

over the past five six seven years has been shaped firstly by engaging with a constituency outside of that metropolitan elite and more broadly as someone who is rooted and and you know it will become we'll all get bored with it in in in a year's or a couple years time you know northern andy all that sort of stuff but he is somebody who does understand and engage with

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