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

I sort of tend to feel more that he does have a kind of consistent thread from his early days in politics up to now, which is this sort of communitarian idea, which is that we all have rights, but we also have obligations.

And our lives and our sort of enjoying our rights to the full satisfaction is only possible when we have rights.

comfortable surroundings in which we're in control which we have a say over and I think that is a consistent theme throughout 20 years ago he was talking with concern about the internet wild west saying we're sort of opening up this world we don't really understand to our children and we need to think about controlling it I think there is a continuity in terms of his politics I think he does have a clear view about what he wants to do in terms of devolving power my concern would be

that Andy can be nostalgic.

It's about devolving power and all the rest of it, moving money, regressing money to the Northwest, money and power to the various places that have not had it.

It's all very good if you've got money, but the United Kingdom has no money.

Absolutely.

And he's not going to be able to do anything very quickly, and the British public will want quick results.

And if they don't get quick results, then he'll quickly become unpopular.

You could absolutely see how.

I mean, he comes into power now not with great public backing.

There weren't people on the streets crying for him as he walked into Downing Street, as there usually is when there's a general election.

He has a few weeks to sort of catch the imagination.

So what he needs to do now, I think, is come up with some lovely, brightly colored primary colors, sort of policy stuff that makes you go, oh, interesting, and call a general election pretty quickly.

And I think he will actually.

I think he'll call a general election in about six months' time when his popularity is at its peak.

He's done a few giveaways.

He's bribed the electorate for some stuff because he needs more time.

Devolving power and all the rest of it can make this country more productive and

If you seize the initiative on AI, he's talking about having an AI cabinet minister.

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