Josh Halliday
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338 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Josh Halliday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were hundreds of signs and cameras went up across Greater Manchester, you know, sort of 10 years or so ago.
And, you know, there was a massive public backlash there.
and he sort of bottled it and didn't follow through, completely scrapped the scheme.
And, you know, apparently it cost about £100 million in order to set this thing up.
I mean, he says that that money wasn't wasted because it went into the electrification of buses, you know, the rollout of the B network.
You know, the signs, clean air zone signs that went up across Greater Manchester were only taken down last year and they became kind of totemic of this big failure of politics.
Right.
And it sort of speaks to that thing that people say about him, is that, you know, he really wants to be liked.
He doesn't like being disliked.
you know, it's about devolving more powers to regions across the UK.
It's about making life more affordable for people.
He's spoken about taking public control of essential assets like water, energy.
He thinks the privatisation of the bus network is one of the biggest flaws of the, you know, the past two, three decades.
And I think much more focus on these post-industrial areas across the Midlands, North and Wales, which haven't seen proper investment for a long time.
And
And where there is huge opportunity to build the industries of the future, clean energy, it's something that he's really keen on.
That's his message, essentially.
He wants to get rid of this kind of myopic government that lives by the hour, that doesn't think about long-term investment in particular areas and seems out of tune with the cost of everyday items and people's lives.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of hung in the background of his leadership ambitions really before this campaign even kicked off.
I mean, people don't really believe that he set out a proper agenda yet on how he would deliver all this kind of long-term investment, this radical change in society without increasing borrowing or taxes.
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