Joe Pike
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1,291 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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he thinks hypothetically it's crackers to be changing prime minister as often as this country has been doing it.
But who the beneficiary of that will be, it's really, really hard to tell.
But I wonder also if really what we've seen is, James, as you say, a bit of a howl of pain from some of Labour's past greats that this government has not got a track record of using a once in a generation enormous majority well.
You know, only governments with enormous majorities, arguably.
can do big hard things and you can hear it from Tony Blair very clearly I think you could hear it from Alan Milburn slightly less clearly that there's a deep frustration that this government didn't come in and as the government did in 1997 came in
and very quickly did some big, bold, radical things.
Love them or hate them, that did happen in 1997.
And this government is still in the position on all sorts of things, whether it's young people, whether it's social care, doing reviews, looking at policies, thinking about policies, welfare, not having a reform of that in the King's speech.
And I just wonder, James, as a keen observer of the Labour Party,
where do you think that level of frustration with Keir Starmer's government is sort of sitting on a frustration-o-meter, you know, out of 10?
It's like a stone still on tour.
James, can you see a situation if Andy Burnham wins that Keir Starmer stays as Prime Minister?
And if Andy Burnham does not win in Maker Field, is there a chance, do you think, that Keir Starmer can stay as Prime Minister in that circumstance?
I think it's time I've been waiting to say this for ages and I haven't said this on air yet and I'm going to say it now.
Could it be Makerfield or Breakerfield?
It was only a matter of time.
James, enjoy the sun.
That would keep me out of trouble.
James, thank you very much indeed for joining us on a sunny, hot afternoon.
We'll let you go off out into the sunshine or get on with reading essays, perhaps.
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