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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And he's had rather a few of those in just two years as prime minister to think alone about what he should do next.
I had a similar thought and...
I'd say I'm like a moderately cultured man, but I'm not sufficiently cultured in the visual arts that I could tell people what from the government art collection he had chosen.
But they were streetscapes, landscapes, scenes of crowds of people, I think, as well.
They were definitely very distinguished artists.
pieces of art.
And there was a booklet in the corner that I could have consulted in the sort of 10 minutes while I was pacing about waiting for the interview.
And I sort of made moves in that direction and then thought, nah, I should probably actually think about what I'm going to ask him.
And then afterwards, sadly, I wasn't allowed to stay behind and peruse the art.
Well, I think that was him making the point, Paddy, that in electoral terms alone...
He does belong in that pantheon.
I mean, he won a bigger majority, I think, than Attlee did, slightly smaller than Blair.
Attlee, of course, managed six years as prime minister, two election victories and a transformation of the British state.
Tony Blair, the only Labour leader to have won three consecutively and won them very handsomely at that.
But look, I think what really leapt out to me
was that, and perhaps Sinek might say it makes sense for him to do this given what's happened to him in office as Prime Minister, but he was trying to say my legacy...
is not just two years as Prime Minister.
My legacy is becoming a Labour leader after a terrible defeat in 2019, the worst since 1935, and within five years, taking the Labour Party back into government.
He was almost starting, I think, to make an argument that he has provided a platform on which his successor, and we all acknowledged in the interview it was going to be Andy Burnham, could build.
Yes, he did.
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