Hugo Gye
speaker
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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He scrapped a winter fuel benefit for older people that was hugely popular.
He kept taking free gifts and free hospitality.
The public really didn't understand why that was happening.
He made the controversial New Labour veteran Peter Mandelson Britain's ambassador to Washington, despite Mandelson's long and well-documented links to Jeffrey Epstein.
That's not to say that Starmer hasn't had successes.
He's dealt with Donald Trump surprisingly well.
He's brought in some economic reforms that have begun to make a difference.
He's actually delivered on some of the ambitions of the left in ways that they like.
For example...
Workers' rights, strengthening those through some big legislation.
But overall, he's never managed to shake this impression that he's always been behind the curve.
And despite those successes, never sort of been on top of things in the way that a leader really has to be.
Yeah, that's right.
The scale of Andy Burnham's victory last week in the Makerfield by-election, I think, has really made up the minds of a lot of Labour MPs that Burnham can make a big difference in Labour's political fortunes and made the question of what happens with the leadership a lot easier to answer.
Most Labour MPs think essentially there should be a straight handover from Starmer to Burnham.
And what happened over the weekend was that even the senior Labour politicians who are very close to Keir Starmer, who've been hugely supportive of him in the past, started to withdraw their support and tell him privately that he had to start setting out a timetable for a transition.
It became clear that any leadership election would be not just a defeat for Starmer, but a genuine humiliation.
So...
The first question is, is Burnham going to become leader unopposed?
I think he will be able to unite the Labour Party in the short term, because like any political party, Labour's priority is winning, and Burnham has shown that he is a winner.
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