Joel Budd
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first heard May 2026
last heard 19 May
Joel Budd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Intelligence from The Economist · Spread too thin: Africa’s next Ebola outbreak · 19 May 2026
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At the moment, Andy Burnham looks like the most plausible successor to Keir Starmer as Prime Minister of Britain.
But there are many hurdles in front of him.
First of all, he needs to become an MP, and then he needs to win the leadership contest.
He's a funny character.
He has been around since two thousand one when he became an MP.
He was an MP for sixteen years under the tail end really of the new Labour government.
Well, he's enormously raised his profile.
He's always been a charming figure.
He's a very good retail politician.
He has the strange quality of being very approachable.
I've been with Andy Burnham a few times, and a very striking thing is that people will come up to him.
And say, Hey Andy, you won't remember me, but I met you at a music festival or you campaigned for some cause that I was involved in, or something like that.
He has a character, I think, of sort of making people feel that they can talk to him.
It's quite a sort of unusual thing in a politician.
He became mayor of Greater Manchester in twenty seventeen.
And that's a funny sort of job.
It's not like being the mayor of New York.
The way Manchester is organized is it's a metropolis of three million people, but it's divided into ten cities and boroughs.
So the city of Manchester is just one of them.
And what Andy Burnham does is he sits
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