Dan Hodges

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

the broader problems of what I would broadly call red wall Britain.

And I was at his sort of victory rally thing today.

And he came up with something which if he follows through on it, I actually think could potentially have some significance, which he said is everything that we now need to do as a party has to pass the make a field test.

Which is, is what a Labour government is doing, is it going to directly, not indirectly through some sort of Blairite or sort of Thatcherite sort of trickle-down thing, is it directly going to benefit people here in Makerfield?

Now, I'll be honest, I haven't heard that from a Labour leader before.

Boris obviously tried to articulate something along these lines and obviously was, in the short term, was actually very successful in trying to articulate a vision.

So that is where I would give, if you want to look for Andy Burnham's political identity, that's where you start.

However, again, this is where I agree with Julia and I'm sure yourselves,

it's one thing that sort of have these things like the makefield test and manchurism manchesterism etc etc but to overlay that template onto the political reality of a country that has no defense has no borders has a welfare crisis has a pensions crisis is is obviously some on of a completely different order but equally those are the issues that will be confronting the country if it whoever became whoever replaced kia starmer not just andy byrne

just to pick up on on what you said and also the the point you made because you framed the question as andy burnham is going to be seen by labour backbenchers as the man who can neutralize sort of polanski in the greens obviously there's an element of that that's not why andy burnham is about to become elected leader of the led party in prime minister we we saw it yesterday we we saw it this morning at the at the rally we saw it in makerfield

Andy Burnham is the reason why Keir Starmer is being thrown out of the balloon two years after winning a 400 majority is because Andy and replaced by Andy Burnham is because in the eyes of Labour MPs, Andy Burnham has one job and it's not to save them from the Greens, although there's a component of that.

His primary job is to save them from reform.

and Nigel Farage.

Andy Burnham, rightly or wrongly, this morning across the Labour movement is seen as the Farage Slayer.

Now, whether he is or he isn't, we're going to find out obviously in the next few months and years.

But that's what, to the extent he's going to have a mandate from anyone,

And I personally have written about this today.

I mean, I think there should be a contest within the Labour Party rather than the coronation.

But either way, the extent to which Andy Burnham is going to have a mandate from his party to do anything, it's going to do one thing, and that's to defeat Nigel Farage.

Now, obviously, he's going to have a lot of problems, to put it mildly, dealing with that.

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