Henry Zeffman

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

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

But a significant minority didn't. matched

And if you want to see how difficult a minority of Labour MPs can be for a Labour Prime Minister, just look at Keir Starmer's last two years. matched

Because ultimately, a chunky minority matched

From that welfare rebellion about a year in onwards. matched

killed Keir Starmer's government and, you know, a completely different minority could make life very difficult for Andy Burnham if they were so inclined. matched

My hunch, by the way, is that come the autumn, they will take the view, most of them. matched

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We might not have wanted to change leader, but we did change leader. matched

We're not going to change leader again before the next election, so we've got to make it work. matched

But it's possible that won't be the case and you'll have something much more publicly embittered. matched

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definitely part of the story of matched

how you ended up with a lot of Labour cabinet ministers serving under a Prime Minister who matched

they didn't rate that highly is that a lot of them saw him, voted for him to become leader, championed him becoming leader because they saw him as a transitional figure. matched

They all assumed in twenty nineteen after Labour had had its worst election defeat not all of them, but lots of them assumed after Labour had had its worst election defeat in eighty years oh since the nineteen thirties, yeah, eighty years, that Keir Starmer was going to be Neil Kinnock, i.e., take the Labour Party from a dire electoral defeat to a position where someone else could then lead them to victory and then matched

Either you credit Keir Starmer with this or you credit Boris Johnson with mucking it up, but things move very quickly. matched

Or you obviously can credit them in some matched

But I think it brings us back to actually the procedural nerdy point that Adam got us talking about, which is how the budget making process works with the Office for Budget Responsibility, which is that Keir Starmer's go at reforming welfare as he'd put it, cutting welfare spending as others would put it. matched

was in order to make the sums add up for Rachel Reeves's budget. matched

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