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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Newscast · Why Keir Starmer’s Resignation Looks More Likely Than Ever · 21 Jun 2026 podcast

But an especially massive thing to happen.

Not even two years since Sir Keir Starmer became what the, slightly depends how you count it, but the fourth Labour leader ever to win a general election majority.

There is an interesting...

discussion definitely taking place at certain levels in the Labour Party about the role of foreign secretary under a Burnham government, because foreign affairs has so dominated Sir Keir Starmer's time as prime minister, unavoidably so given what's going on in the world,

But there are people who say, look, that is not Andy Burnham's particular field of interest.

If he is going to become leader of the Labour Party and prime minister on a mandate to transform the domestic politics of the Labour Party, then it is just not a good use of his time and his talents.

And I just keep hearing people say.

The Tories really found a way to make this work at the end with David Cameron as Foreign Secretary because visiting prime ministers from sort of more minor nations would be happy to meet David Cameron.

That would be respectful.

And Rishi Sunak didn't have to take two hours out of his day to go and sit down with a prime minister from a slightly irrelevant country.

I mean, that's just the reality of it, right?

I don't know.

I haven't come up with it.

I haven't named a particular country, right?

Clearly some are irrelevant to the UK, at least in relative terms.

So who is that person?

who Andy Burnham could, if he buys that argument, put in charge of his foreign affairs.

And I've had two people, I don't think it's necessarily informed speculation, but I don't think it's completely uninformed speculation, say to me, well, perhaps it might not just be Ed Miliband from the Miliband family in line for a big job.

But one extraordinary thing, I mean, I don't think this is going to happen, but let's just say one extraordinary thing.

The 2010 Labour leadership election was 16 years ago.

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