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 Vic asked Lucy Powell why the Labour leader is yet again set to be a man.
They've never had a female leader in their 120 odd year history.
He's a man who was last prominent in national politics, last in the cabinet in the late new Labour period.
Ditto both Milibands.
Obviously, Ed Miliband's been in the Cabinet the last couple of years as Energy Secretary.
Andy Burnham appointed as his Chief of Staff, prospective Chief of Staff this week, James Purnell, another man who played in the same football team as all of them back in the new Labour period.
Is it starting to feel a bit retro and is it starting to feel a bit blokey?
Those are questions that you are hearing Labour MPs ask.
And so I wouldn't at all be surprised if in order to counterbalance that to some extent, Lucy Powell, who Vic spoke to today...
who is already the deputy leader of the Labour Party, could become the deputy prime minister, which she currently isn't.
David Lammy is.
But I think that is something as this cabinet gets formed in private, but with all sorts of briefings and leaks over the next few weeks, I wouldn't be surprised if those are questions you hear asked more and more.
Yeah, I mean, there are a lot of people who are saying, given the churn in foreign secretaries in the past decade, which I think exceeds the churn in prime minister's,
it would make sense to leave someone there who already has the relationships.
And Yvette Cooper, she hasn't been Foreign Secretary that long, but of course she has spent the last 10 months or so building up those relationships.
So I think that is very plausible.
Of course, she is another figure from the last few years of New Labour, so she knows Andy Burnham well and vice versa.
But no, I think that is certainly possible.
The case being made for a figure from kind of outside current electoral politics as Foreign Secretary is that Andy Burnham...
wants to as far as he can avoid getting sucked into spending so much time on foreign policy as keir starmer did now partly that's up to the world not up to the uk prime minister but how do you do that well the model that some look to is when dave when rishi sunak made david cameron his foreign secretary and being a former prime minister he had the clout
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