Dan Hodges
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1,371 appearances
2 recordings
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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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But for a politician, be it Andy Burnham a an any other politician, it's not simply a case of saying, right, there is a very hard choice you have to take, take it.
Because the reality is and again this is
Against them.
the the the the the backdrop of of of of of the the the growth of populism, but will be the case even without that.
As a politician, you can't take a hard choice
unless you get the endorsement of the electorate to take that choice.
So let's take a let's take uh an issue such as for example the triple lot.
You speak to a senior politician of any political party.
Privately they will tell you triple lock is unsustainable.
But they will equally tell you Just explain for people the trip triple lock.
My understanding of the triple lock it it it's basically pensions that commit are always going up.
Yeah, but basically, simpli simplistically, it's a it's a commitment that that that that pensions will be guaranteed.
I think it's uh it's a hangover from I think it was George Osborne, wasn't it?
Was it George Osborne or
first intro introduced it or was it Gordon Brown?
I can't remember.
It's been around so so long.
But you speak to any of them and they say it's not sustainable.
It's not financially sustainable.
But they equally say, but if I stand up and say that
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