Heather Stewart
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438 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Heather Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was inside the Treasury, he knows how it works, he's he's got principles, he's got a sort of programme, he'd hit the ground running, all that sort of stuff.
Um but there was a real campaign against him.
Right.
Partly from union leaders who are very keen on oil extraction continuing in the North Sea.
You know, Miliband had sort of
set set himself against that and was th dangerous in that way, partly also from people in a different bit of the Labour Party who felt that he would alarm the city and the bomb markets and all of that.
So he has this sort of there's a bit of a bogeyman thing there, I think, that even others in the kind of Labour movement feel about.
So where
support within
I think it's in the sort of brownite
soft left wing of the party, I suppose, or soft left bit of the party.
Yeah, I think he probably is seen as quite influential because he's seen as someone who, you know, is willing to get into the nitty-gritty detail of a policy area, he's likely to have sort of read all the big books and, you know, spoken to all the big thinkers and very much in the mould of Gordon Brown, to be honest.
I mean, a foreign secretary can definitely be influential, right?
And in a way
You know, there was some talk that
I'm sure there were lots of reasons that he wasn't made Chancellor, but I suspect one of those was you are incredibly influential as Chancellor and veterans of the Blair Brown government, which Andy Burnham is, will remember that as Chancellor you can you can kinda hold the rest of government hostage, right?
You can you know, not that I'm suggesting Burnham and Miliband are not in tune, but you know, you're really handing someone a lot of power to make them Chancellor and to sort of set the direction and
And maybe Burnham felt he wanted to be the one who set the direction.
It's early days, but certainly I think it is a particularly big role potentially in an anti Burnham government, because Burnham has said
He doesn't want to do as much travel as, for example, Keir Starmer did, who who seemed to rather enjoy the foreign policy part of his job, less so the domestic side of it, whereas Burnham has made quite clear that he wants to focus on the domestic, which actually opens up quite a big role for the foreign secretary.
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