Julia Hartley-Brewer

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255 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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

Other than that, genuinely,

I don't think he believes in anything.

I don't think he has a plan.

I don't think he, exactly like Keir Starmer, knows why he wants to be prime minister, what he wants to be prime minister to do.

He talks about change the same way Keir Starmer did two years ago, but at no point are we hearing what that change is going to be, bearing in mind he's going to have not only, as he said, signing up to the same fiscal rules as Rachel Reeves, even though

sure uh give that news night interview the other day that he actually knows what they are um uh but uh but also he's gonna have exactly the same back benches that kia starmer has the same back benches you haven't got a clue how the real world works how to run a business who who think that you should put taxes up on businesses and this mythical group of very wealthy people who aren't paying any tax and won't leave the country if they can if they put those taxes up

um who think that we should spend more on welfare not less and you frankly don't feel too sure about us uh either borrowing more taxing more or doing any any version of any cuts in any departmental spending to fund what vital vital money on defense he's he's going to he's just going to be in if he's going to have a bounce in the polls i've no doubt at all about that

And he's going to be able to communicate better.

But fundamentally, a few months down the line, he's going to be in exactly the same predicament as Keir Starmer is, where he's going to be.

And we've already seen him flip-flop Andy, as he was in the first two Labour leadership contests he ran in in 2010 and 2015.

He does U-turn after U-turn.

I'll help the WASPI women.

£10 billion of taxpayers' money should go to these women who had to retire a bit later.

Oh, no, I've changed my mind.

We can't afford that.

That took, I think, two days for him to U-turn on.

We are literally into Keir Starmer, Mark II in a T-shirt.

I'm not saying that.

It's just no evidence that he has thought about a lot of these issues.

And there are things that, you know, I mean, and obviously he touched on very interesting in his speech this morning that one bit,

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