Josh Halliday

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338 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Today in Focus · How would PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham change Britain? - The Latest · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And it sounds like much more of a significant operation than I think many people had expected.

Well, I think, as you say, it's an incredibly important thing to announce.

And I don't think Burnham supporters or Burnham himself can get away for very long with saying, you know, this is tittle-tattle, it's none of your business, essentially, until they come to form that government.

It shows what direction the country is going to take.

And the chancellor is often as powerful as the prime minister, aren't they?

You know, they decide who gets the public finances and, you know, they will, if Burnham is going to oversee this major redistribution of power, you'll certainly need a chancellor that's backing you 100% of the way.

He didn't touch that today, but he did say that it would be a cabinet that unites the party, that seeks to reflect everyone in the country, not just everyone in the Labour Party, but people across the board.

So I think that was a hint that you will get people from the left of the Labour Party as well as those towards the right.

Yeah, I think that's really disappointing, actually.

I don't think it's a good look for a prime minister-in-waiting who's coming off such huge momentum to be effectively dodging questions.

And yeah, there would have been a lot of questions about who the chancellor is.

Those are legitimate questions.

But I think every journalist in that room would have had about 30 other questions they would have liked to ask him about what actually he's...

his mandate would be.

Because a lot of it is quite high level talk about the biggest rebalancing of power in decades.

But what does that actually mean?

And when are you going to do it?

So Burnham at the minute is sort of on the crest of this wave and he's getting away with showing people a bit of what he wants to achieve.

while not properly being held accountable for how he would do that or when he would do that.

And yeah, so I think that's a tricky position for him to be in.

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