Henry Zeffman
speaker
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.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 5.
Appearances
Well, I think they think he didn't quite manage that.
And actually that was perhaps at the core of his failure as prime minister.
Failure, I think, though he doesn't see it that way, failure to get beyond two years.
And where I think his analysis of why he's leaving that building is incontestable is that...
He says Labour MPs are now asking who's going to win the next election.
I think it is basically a fact that he is leaving office because all the polls and all the elections that have now taken place on his watch as prime minister show that he's unpopular and Labour MPs in large numbers think
uh-oh, if it carries on like this, the Labour Party is going to lose the next general election and I'm going to lose my job.
That's why he's off.
You can talk about the background to his unpopularity, the ways in which it might have been avoided, the fact that we've cycled through so many unpopular prime ministers in such a short space of time.
But it is clearly the case.
And the tensions between Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham predate Labour returning to government.
I mean, I read, as you would have heard, I read Keir Starmer, one of the pretty rude, frankly, things he said about Andy Burnham in the past, because I remember this particular joke, essentially about him supporting every World Cup team, code, this man doesn't believe anything.
And as I pointed out in the interview, he laughed.
He was essentially thinking, oh yeah, that's quite witty.
Yeah.
And maybe to bring this all full circle, there is therefore an irony that Andy Burnham's success is Keir Starmer's success at this point.
And I don't mean that in some sort of woo-woo Labour family way.
Keir Starmer has told us very clearly that
that a big part of his legacy is that he has provided the Labour Party the opportunity, not just to win once, but to keep on winning.
Well, if they go down to a bad defeat under Andy Burnham at the next general election, whenever that may be, then on Keir Starmer's own terms...
Showing 1041–1060 of 1,893 · page 53 of 95
← Previous
Next →