Jim Pickard

That's a reference to Andy Burnham being asked what his favourite biscuit was.

Can you remember his reply?

I think he also had a beer just to max the northern cliché.

What are you having, Lucy?

It looks amazing.

I've had a McDonald's, but I'm going to enjoy that on the train home.

Now, I've been up here this morning in the rain, chatting to a fair number of people.

I've probably spoken to 15 or 20 local people in Makerfield.

And what I found very interesting is that I got more Labour and Burnham supporters.

Lucy, I'll come back to you, but I think you got more Reform and Restore voters.

This is why we have pollsters, because they can talk to a thousand people.

In a way that we can't on our trip up from London.

But I agree with what you said, Jen, which is that there seemed to me a bit of a gender difference with the women sounding on balance a little bit more labour-y and the men who were more open with how they were going to vote were talking more in a kind of reform way.

And there was one thing that I noticed that really came through, which was that Andy Burnham, when he was in his hustings, was using this line about how reform wants to make British politics more like Trump's America.

Yeah.

Two people on the streets this morning spontaneously said that to me, and I thought, well, that's one attack line from Burnham that does seem to be getting through to voters.

So one thing I picked up talking to people in Makerfield this morning was that even the ones who were voting Reform don't mind Andy Burnham, I guess reflecting the fact that he hasn't had to take any responsibility for national government decisions over the last decade.

And the people who are inclined to vote Labour do think, they call him things like, he's a good fella, he's a great guy, he's likeable.

But even among them, there was some cynicism about whether he can change Britain and do a better job than Keir Starmer.

Nobody seems to like Keir Starmer actively, but there are a couple of people who said to me, we do think it's really hard running the country, being prime minister.