Henry Zeffman

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1,893 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Sep

Henry Zeffman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Newscast · What’s Piling Up On Andy Burnham’s Desk? · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

daily activity in Parliament actually meant that quite quickly it felt quite quiet. matched

So I think in that sense, matched

It will be hard to judge what the Burnham Premiership truly looks like until we're a few weeks into September when Parliament has returned and when MPs have returned. matched

We've matched

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No, and we haven't seen him I mean we literally have not seen him standing at the dispatch box as Prime Minister. matched

That's some of the most matched

sort of prime ministerial moments that you get from any prime minister, you know, even Liz Truss, who only did the job for forty nine days, I can think of at least three sort of notable moments where she was standing matched

at the dispatch box. matched

And he also went on holiday for a week, uh which there's been a bit of debate over matched

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He should have gone on holiday so early, even though it is the natural time for a Prime Minister to go on holiday, August or July, whatever it was, regardless of how long they've been Prime Minister. matched

But that also takes a week out of it. matched

So I think you know, we've seen him communicating in the way I expected him to communicate, which is very personal, very colloquial, very natural. matched

But does that tell us a lot about what people in this room and beyond will think about him in a year's time? matched

I'm not sure it really does. matched

Yeah, I totally agree. matched

And I think he himself has acknowledged that quite a lot of the policies he announced on the cost of living, many of them, by the way, England only, like the uh two pound bus cap fare and other measures, uh he has acknowledged that they're sort of small indications of the kinds of things he cares about rather than the totality or even close to the totality of what he proposes to do to address the pressures that people are feeling on the cost of living. matched

But also I think he has an extra sensitivity about even nodding towards the kinds of things he might do at the budget because matched

It's not even quite a year ago when lots of very clever people in Westminster were writing off Andy Burnham's chances of ever becoming Prime Minister, on the basis that he appeared to have caused a wobble in the financial markets as the mayor of Greater Manchester, which is some doing, by talking about how he did not believe that the UK should be in hock to the bond markets in his phrase. matched

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