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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And...
how he uses that authority, that power will be really fascinating.
Absolutely.
Within government, there's been an awful lot of frustration.
Right.
And there are people who are more willing in government now that this government is on the way out to be candid in private about quite how intense the battles in private have been to try to budge Ed Miliband on some of these issues.
I mean, it is just worth calibrating how far Andy Burnham might go.
Because...
One of the headline pledges, really, of Labour's 2024 general election manifesto, to which Andy Burnham says he will stick, the manifesto in general, was the ban on new oil and gas licences in the North Sea.
And I am not, as it stands at the time of recording, picking up any sense that Andy Burnham is going to tear that up.
in his speech on Monday.
So I think it's more about what you can do to change direction or signal a coming change of direction within that.
And I think we may well get a nod to where things are headed on Jackdaw and Rosebank, which are licenses that were granted under the Conservatives, but then got ensnared in a legal process, rather than something about new licenses now.
The posh term that Keir Starmer kept using at PMQs the other week.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's actually one of the things that...
speaking to people who are around government, who were also there last time Andy Burnham was in government, they say has changed most since he was last a Secretary of State, since he was last even a Shadow Secretary of State, is perhaps some of the
which I don't mean as a sort of loaded word of judicial challenge in Whitehall which does affect how decisions are made but to come back to your point Paddy about the fact that we're talking about this now I think it's a really important element of this which is
This is being intimated by Burnham's team as something that he will talk about on Monday in the context of Monday being about short-term measures to address the cost of living.
Gary Smith of the GMB, who was at Andy Burnham's speech looking very happy...
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