Julia Hartley-Brewer
speaker
255 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Julia Hartley-Brewer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it may not be what we feel like we like now, but we can do it.
Now, a strong leader could do that, could drive that through, would be able to push that through, have the powers of persuasion.
I don't think there's any evidence that he does have that.
And one of the things that I think really did it for Keir Starmer was this U-turn after U-turn after U-turn.
Not only did he not believe anything he said, even speeches he gave, the Island of Strangers speeches, apparently he didn't even believe, hadn't read it.
You know, he didn't believe anything he said.
He didn't have a plan.
But also, crucially, whenever he came up against pretty much any opposition at all,
He did nothing about it.
He just went, oh, okay.
He slumped back into his corner and he gave in.
Now, the first moment when Andy Burnham tries to do anything that is vitally economically or security-wise necessary, and he gets pushback from a large number of more left, the backbenchers largely being more on the left, those backbenchers who thought he was their great white hope, the moment he buckles, that first time that he buckles,
He's finished because all of his backbenchers will know, right, we've got another pushover.
We can prevent this stuff from happening.
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.
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