Daniel Boffey

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353 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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The Indo Daily · Can new UK prime minister Andy Burnham heal British politics? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

It might look like it.

It might look like the Labour Party is kind of as one gone.

Yes, he is the prince across the water, of course.

Actually, I think a lot of the parliamentary parties don't know him.

Those who do know him, quite a few of them are very unsure about him.

But if you look at the other options...

There aren't any.

There was lots of talk, well, reform could beat him.

Well, he got more votes in that election than any of the other parties put together.

Absolutely destroyed reform.

And reform is the big danger.

That sort of momentum built behind him, which...

You know, he's very fortunate.

And maybe he'll be the fortunate, lucky prime minister as well.

There's big criticism through...

not the entire career but certainly since about 2010 is that he's kind of captain flip-flop he says one thing one day and then sort of backtracks when it all becomes difficult the next and the absolute if you decide to look at him through that prism you can see plenty of i mean i just

A couple of days ago, he put in the press that he's going to scrap the ID card plan that Keir Starmer has had.

Well, Burnham's first ministerial job was pushing for an ID card under Tony Blair.

And he had a big sort of man-sized ID card in his office.

So absolutely, if you want to look through the prism, you can see plenty of flip-flops.

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