Hugo Gye

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247 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Coming in Andy: Britain's prime minister-in-waiting · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Burnham's not the only candidate, though.

Not only is there Starmer, there is also Wes Streeting, the centrist carrier of the Blairite Flame, who resigned from the cabinet a few weeks ago and said he was going to challenge Starmer, but said he wanted to wait until after the Makerfield by-election so that Burnham could be in that contest too.

All the polls suggest that Andy Burnham is going to be their heavy favourite.

And the Labour MPs overwhelmingly want Burnham to take over, but it's not a done deal.

I think both Keir Starmer and actually Wes Streeting, the other contender, are pretty stubborn.

My guess would be it's likely that at least one of them will stand up and put their name forwards.

But again, it's very likely that Andy Burnham's gonna win.

He seems to be by far the favoured choice of

That's right.

There was another by-election in Aberdeen South in Scotland, where the Conservative Party, which has been struggling for so long, won the seat.

They took it off the Scottish National Party.

So that's good news for the Conservatives, for their leader Kemi Badenok, who's trying to re-establish them as the proper national force that they're almost in danger of stopping being.

And this is actually concerning news.

For Reform UK.

Reform, they're leading in the polls nationally.

They have been for more than a year now, but they lost badly in Makerfield.

And they're seeing the Conservatives return as a national force, which makes it harder for reform to claim that they are now the party of the right in the UK.

And another thing that happened in Makerfield is that this far-right party, Restore Britain, which has a much more hard-line message than

And reform took 7%.

Didn't come close to winning, but pretty decent showing from a party that essentially didn't exist a few weeks ago.

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