Hugo Gye
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182 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Hugo Gye’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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big economic plans.
He's keeping them pretty secret so far.
We really don't know much at all about either of those.
On migration, he said one thing he's not going to do.
He's ditching a plan for digital ID cards, which had been dreamt up by Keir Starmer and was pitched as, among other things, a way of cracking down on illegal migration.
Burnham is seen as coming...
from the left of Labour broadly, although some of his mentors, such as former Home Secretary David Blunkett, are more from the right.
So, Burnham would say that's a strength that he can draw on all wings of the party and all traditions of the party.
But the risk is that he ends up looking a bit muddled and not really taking a strong stance at all.
On foreign policy, obviously, the very
biggest issue is how he deals with the US, how he deals with Donald Trump.
He said that he will meet Trump where he's at, whatever that means.
I think he's going to clearly try and have a constructive relationship with the White House, which he has to do.
But there is maybe a sense that he's going to be slightly less close to Trump than Keir Starmer sought to be.
His big announcement that he made a couple of weeks ago is that he's going to split the Downing Street operation between London and a new office in Manchester, which he's calling Number 10 North.
This has attracted a bit of criticism because he was the mayor of Greater Manchester.
And so there was a bit of grumbling about, well, why is he just trying to move everything from London to Manchester?
But he has said that it's not just about Manchester.
It's not just about the north of England and that he wants to govern in the interests of the UK as a whole.
Whether this is going to work, though, is pretty unclear.
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