Joe Pike
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1,425 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
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But yeah, totally.
I mean, we're going to start seeing scrutiny, I mean, particularly of Andy Burnham, given, if you like, his explicit public campaign
starts now, has started now in the statement that he's put out this evening, which is further ahead really than where West Streeting is.
We'll come on to talk about West Streeting, but he offered a critique of the Starmer approach to government, but he didn't explicitly say that he would be running or declaring, etc., etc.,
So, yeah, Andy Burnham, his pitch is going to be that he would govern the UK in the way that he has been the mayor of Manchester.
He talks about Manchesterism.
He's talked about what he's done, for instance, with public transport and the buses there, the B network, the private investment that he's brought into Manchester city centre, although some say that there's quite a lot of that that was happening there.
that was happening already before his tenure.
And then there will be scrutiny of his sort of record before that.
And he used to get a lot of accusations lobbed at him about flip-flopping, about not having a clear sense of who he was.
He argues, and his supporters argue, he has sharpened that a lot as mayor.
The other thing he's going to have to do...
is, and this has started already, by the way, but is get to know one heck of a lot of Labour MPs because he's not been at Westminster for quite a while.
And the Parliamentary Labour Party has changed massively in the time that he's been away.
I mean, not least expanding massively a couple of years ago.
So he and his supporters, and yes, he has plenty of supporters at Westminster who can help him with that in the time that it takes him to attempt to get back here.
He's got a lot of...
He's got a lot of politicking to do, both in Makerfield and in Westminster.
It might change his mind.
Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?
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