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

to the massive frustration of lots of Labour MPs, including some who supported those welfare reforms. matched

It was just, no, no, no, you need to vote for this because otherwise we'll have to put up taxes because i the money doesn't add up otherwise. matched

What actually they started doing under Keir Starmer after that debacle, but have continued doing under Andy Burnham because he's reappointed the same work and pension secretary Pat McFadden is trying to make the argument from first principles. matched

They believe that that means that when and it is a matter of when not if they ask Labour MPs again to vote to make at least some welfare payments less generous for some people. matched

that Labour MPs and perhaps the public will feel more amenable to it. matched

I think let's wait and see whether it turns out to actually be the case that they have built a durable consensus on that or whether actually it's just so politically painful to vote for welfare cuts for Labour MPs. matched

I wonder I mean I'm just thinking out loud here, but I wonder if for a ban they would need le legislation and just to come back to it, Parliament is not sitting. matched

Uh I mean they can ask retailers and perhaps they'll stop. matched

to the point that actually a lot of Cobra meetings and Andy Burnham is far from the first Prime Minister to use it in this way, a lot of Cobra meetings are actually just a way of signalling to the public via us getting excited about Cobra meetings, not us specifically a newscast, journalists more generally matched

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It's a way of signalling matched

under this scheme. matched

And essentially what Andy Burnham has therefore said is these two people are not going to be released. matched

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And I don't mean that in a critical way. matched

I think that's, you know matched

Lots of people will be delighted. matched

I mean, about 800,000 people had signed the petition calling for this to happen before loads of police chiefs as well? matched

Right, absolutely. matched

And uh so you can see why Andy Burnham felt swayed by public opinion. matched

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