Julia Hartley-Brewer

And there are an awful lot of people, Labour Party members, not so much the voters, they're much wiser, Labour Party members, and many on the backbenchers of that party, and quite a few, frankly, in the government bench as well, who genuinely think that this stuff doesn't need to be done.

And, you know, they are going to be they're going to be realistically, they're the ones who are going to be Andy Burnham's enemy, not Kemi Bade, not PMQs asking her six questions, not reform in local by-elections in the Red Wall.

The real enemy that Andy Burnham is going to have to face down is his own backbenchers.

He'll get the breathing space, but as soon as he has to make a decision, he's going to upset one side or the other.

The honeymoon period will be different from Labour backbenchers, from the voters.

I mean, voters don't expect things to change immediately.

A lot of people, you know, may not know much about him, you know, as we, following him closely, don't know much about what his policies are.

But again, I simply don't accept that actually that honeymoon can last very long because

There needs to be action.

And when there isn't action, he will be blamed for that.

And when there is action, he cannot please everybody all the time.

And it's very easy when you're the mayor of Manchester to sort of please all these people all the time.

And you're not being held to account for what money is being spent on defense, what money is being spent on health, whether the trains run on time.

You're literally not being held responsible for every single thing that happens in the country, which was what happens to a prime minister.

And I don't think he's going to.

I just don't see anything from all the things that I think are good about him.

I don't see anything in there that suggests he is going to be able to withstand it.

Would you do an allowance for elderly people?

Come on.

A lot of people still talk about that two years on.