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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In the Labour Party, I think we'll see a lot more public jockeying for position and a lot more rumours, some of them nonsense, some of them turning out to be true about what a Burnham government would do and what it would look like.
I feel a slight sense of bewilderment because, yes, prime ministers have changed an awful lot in the past decade.
But it is still shocking that this morning we feel it is likely, I think we can say, perhaps even stronger than that, that another change is about to happen.
So I think we're used to standing on this particular cliff edge now, but that doesn't make it any less jarring for sure.
And it's Henry in the studio.
It is helpful.
I think it was pretty clear that things were moving even before Peter Kyle sat down to speak to you.
But to have Peter Kyle, not just a cabinet minister, but one of the remaining cabinet ministers who is loyal to Sir Keir Starmer, and it's not a given at this point that if you're in the cabinet, you're loyal to Sir Keir Starmer, to have him being as plain as he was to you,
even if there's a bit of decoding we still need to do, I think shows that Sir Keir Starmer's mood has shifted rather a lot since Friday morning after the Makerfield by-election.
Yeah, I mean, I was speaking to lots of MPs over the weekend, but one that really stuck in my mind yesterday was an MP who was open to backing the Prime Minister, definitely not a Burnhamite.
Like most Labour MPs, they've done their pilgrimage to Makefield over the past few weeks for insurance, but there was no path for Sir Keir Starmer which didn't involve him rallying this MP behind his flag.
And they said, I haven't heard anything.
Not necessarily just from Sir Keir Starmer, but also from the people who would be at the heart of a Keir Starmer leadership campaign that we were being assured that he is revving up to run.
And that just struck me as such a sign that sure, he had done a ring round of cabinet ministers.
But a leadership campaign requires a much broader coalition, even if he didn't necessarily, I mean, didn't actually technically need the nominations of MPs to be a candidate.
But I just thought, oh, OK, things are moving in one direction here.
I think we can't reiterate enough that the basic reason this is happening is because Labour MPs, many of them, think they are going to lose their jobs at the next general election with Sir Keir Starmer as their leader and as the Prime Minister.
That is the main dynamic which has driven the periodic leadership crises that Sir Keir Starmer has faced.
So, it may well be true, indeed some evidence suggests it is true, that the public is very frustrated by frequent changes in Prime Minister
But the public also keeps showing through polling and focus groups and whatever else that they like almost every prime minister less than the last one.
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