Emily Maitlis

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4,121 appearances 30 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 25 Jun

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The News Agents · Starmer resigns - is Burnham unstoppable? · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And as you say, I think there have been voices in his ear saying the triple lock would send out a signal straight away.

A, because it saves you 15 billion straight up, right?

That's the kind of money that would actually be quite useful for a budget, for example.

B...

Because it signals that you have gone somewhere that is meant to be a sort of totemic sacred cow.

And C, because you actually make every young person in this country, and it doesn't have to be that young, they could be sort of in their 40s, go, oh, right, it's not just about, you know.

But the weird thing about the winter fuel was actually, I mean, most people in retrospect think it was not a stupid thing to look at.

They just think it was mishandled, which comes down to the whole question.

And we had this in the focus group.

I think I mentioned it last week that I remember one guy saying, it's not that I would need a personality, but I need a communicator between Reeves and Starmer.

They never had anyone who could tell a story or could explain their policies.

I think the winter fuel came out of nowhere and, as it turns out, disappeared back into nowhere.

So all the people saying it was a terrible policy were the same people who then said, oh, but they should have stuck with it.

What you've got to do is explain why you're doing something.

Do it.

Make the case for it and explain where that money can then go.

That's the story that you tell when you come into office.

That's the one that wasn't told.

Can you see Ed Miliband as Chancellor?

But I also think it has to be somebody that Andy Burnham can basically hand over the numbers to but not feel that he's in constant opposition to.

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