Julia Hartley-Brewer

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TRIGGERnometry · Live Reaction to Makerfield By-Election with Dan Hodges and Julia Hartley-Brewer · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

A hint of a policy that he touched on was that it was unfair on the people of Makerfield to have migrants being sort of dumped, these mass contracts where Serco turns up and pays double the rent anyone else can pay, therefore they get all the local properties and you get streets of HMOs.

There was a hint, well, that was wrong and it was unfair.

He didn't actually offer a solution to that.

I don't think that, I think he ran a blinder of a campaign, no doubt at all about that.

But the trouble is,

And he's got this long history as a successful mayor, as a cabinet minister.

But he was a cabinet minister under Tony Blair when there was loads of money and he had a very, very astute leader.

And he wasn't held to account personally.

Being a mayor, being a backbench MP, being a cabinet minister are all completely different from being the prime minister.

To govern is to choose.

You have to make choices.

There are a heck of a lot.

of very, very tough choices that are about to be made.

And he said he's going to bring change, but he's also going to stick to the Starmer Manifesto offering change, but we don't know what kind of change that was supposed to be either.

And he's doing it, as I say, with the same backbenchers and with the same fiscal constraints.

And realistically, what can he get done when the things that most need to be done, the things that the majority of people who, frankly, paying any attention at all, no need to be done, spending on defence, cutting welfare, dropping net zero are things that I think we can be very, very sure he's not going to be able or willing to do.

The fact that Ed Miliband has been touted as a likely candidate for being Andy Bonham's chancellor, I think is a bit of a giveaway there.

Andy Miliband is a climate hysteric zealot.

He makes Greta look moderate and normal on this issue.

He is one of the main reasons why we are, you know, we are heading, you know,

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