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Jen Williams

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FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

That very much has the ability to flip overnight from Labour to reform.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

And I know people who are very sympathetic towards Andy, who have said to me, like, he would be absolutely mad to go in St Helens.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

And that was before these results started to come through overnight.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

Stephen, last thought on this to you.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

Jen, who are you buying or selling?

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

Well, I'm afraid this is a little bit of a cop-out, but I'm going to hold Manchesterism, which is Andy Burnham's professed vision, I guess, and blueprint for government, which is, if you're an Andy Burnham fan, it is essentially this kind of business-friendly socialism idea that has come out of his time being mayor here.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

If you're more of a sceptic, it's a sort of

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

retrofitting of something that had already happened before that actually isn't particularly left wing and doesn't necessarily tell you all that much about what he would do in government.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

I think it's fair to say, and I think probably he knows, that actually that hasn't really been fleshed out in an awful lot of detail.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

And a lot of the legwork on that

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

has in practice been done by civil servants when he has gone and made speeches in his capacity as mayor talking about Manchester and Greater Manchester.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

And so those speeches have then doubled up as a bit of a nod and a wink, certainly to the soft left of the Labour Party.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

I think that needs to be fleshed out.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

And at the moment, I'm not entirely convinced what that means as a platform for government.

FT News Briefing
Political Fix Election special: snap analysis

So, yeah, it is a cop-out, but maybe in future weeks I can take a slightly riskier decision on it.

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