Emily Maitlis
speaker
4,121 appearances
30 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
Emily Maitlis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Andy Burnham thinks by giving him this sort of, you know, window of the weekend of dignity, he's also going to be the person that doesn't sort of set a light, that doesn't trigger, doesn't fire the first shot.
Patrick Maguire, the kind of, you know, the Labour horse whisperer, columnist at The Times, is talking about it just being a question of choreography.
You know, if you're on planet Earth, you know what's coming next.
We just don't know quite how or quite when.
Neither is Beth Rigby.
Yeah, but there's a lot going on in that just because there are all sorts of different theories doing the rounds at the moment.
I mean, I was told at the weekend by somebody who was fiercely loyal to Keir Starmer that if Andy Burnham thinks he's going to get a coronation, then this person said, I'm going to throw my hat into the ring and make a tit of myself, myself.
In other words, they're not going to let it happen.
There is a thought, I think, from Sam Coates, who was suggesting, Sam Coates of Sky News, who was suggesting...
that Keir Starmer was actually trying to encourage members of the cabinet, maybe MPs loyal to him, to go with Wes Streeting to get Wes's numbers up to 81, at which point Wes is the one that triggers the contest, which Keir Starmer obviously can fight from a position of not having started anything.
He doesn't need the 81 himself.
I've talked to members of the cabinet who say that doesn't sound very much like Keir, but we'll wait and see.
I think Andy Burnham clearly wants this to be a kind of
Well, you know, the Damascene conversion will happen.
He'll see the light.
He'll make way for me and I will sort of sweep in there and I won't have to do any of the heavy lifting.
Keir Starmer has made clear he's not going and actually could win from a messy contest.
In other words, the more people come in, the more people kind of go, oh, my God, this is horrible.
We don't want to look like the Conservatives.
The last thing we want is to look like an immature party in government.
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