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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Can we talk about the timetable question?
Because I actually think very quickly this is going to be the big debate in the Labour Party.
Exactly.
There are people around Andy Burnham who would like the handover, which they believe there will be.
Others might have something to say about that, but they would like the handover to take place around about the time of Labour Party conference.
So last week of September.
There are other people, not just in the Labour Party more generally, who...
but also in Camp Burnham, who say to me, that is preposterous.
The idea that you can have a three-month interregnum in which government would grind to a halt, but also you would have nonstop speculation and briefing about what a Burnham government would look like, which would ultimately define for Andy Burnham
how his government is framed in a way that might be very hard to rescue should he then become prime minister in late September.
They say, look, it's for the birds.
This is going to have to happen within weeks, if not days, as happened with David Cameron handing over to Theresa May, for example, or indeed Liz Truss over to Rishi Sunak.
I think that is going to be perhaps the big debate in the Labour Party over the next few days.
And you look at some of the positions that Andy Burnham ended up taking on national questions during the Makerfield campaign.
For example, he's indicated that he's supportive of Shabana Mahmood's policies at the Home Office.
Indeed, there's a widespread expectation now that if he becomes Prime Minister, Shabana Mahmood would remain as Home Secretary.
Other positions on various different things.
You add them together.
And some Labour MPs say, well, hang on, what's the point?
You are just changing from a man in his 60s in glasses to a man in his 50s in glasses, Paddy, to adopt your sketch.
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