Kevin Fitzpatrick
speaker
214 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Kevin Fitzpatrick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I've had a few too many coffees, I think.
I'm looking a bit intense as I look at myself back in the picture.
Yes, so in the end it was quite a comfortable victory for Andy Burnham.
He got more than 24,000 votes, nearly 25, more than half of the total vote and he ended up 9,000 votes ahead of Reform.
Everybody else were behind them.
So while it was a two-horse race, as had been predicted throughout the contest, in the end Andy Burnham was way ahead and it wasn't quite as close as many people had thought.
Well, right from the start, he was adamant that this was a locally focused by-election for him.
He tried edging away, didn't he, from questions about, well, why would it be better than Keir Starmer as Prime Minister and what are his plans for the country more generally?
And he did tap into this idea that he kept ramming home and said in his acceptance speech as well that places like Makerfield had been neglected for too long, that the politicians hadn't listened and that he believes with his unique and special confidence
of experience as an MP for 16 years, as the MP for Leeds just up the road, and also his nearly 10 years overseeing the conurbation of Greater Manchester with its 10 councils and its record growth, the fastest growing economy in the country, that he was uniquely placed to go back to Parliament and orchestrate the change that he felt people in Makerfield needed.
So he's been really focused whenever he could
on the people, the issues, the things that he thought were topical and mattered to people in the area.
He actually is across all the issues in the area, you know, things like flooding, things like anti-social behaviour in one area in Ashton and Makerfield town centre, because as mayor he has had some involvement with trying to sort those things out, but he also did quite easily drift, didn't he, into what he saw as the things that needed to change with the country and
I think a lot of what he talked about hasn't been drilled into specifics.
And what will be interesting in coming days and weeks is what is he going to articulate about this idea that he says, and is the night before the election, well, you know, it's time to end 40 years of trickle-down economics.
These are big statements, aren't they?
And I think while this campaign has focused locally as much as it could do, there are huge questions that he needs to answer if he does want to become prime minister.
Yeah, well, that's a huge illegal tip, which the authorities have just watched build and build over a couple of years to the point where it was hundreds and hundreds of tons of illegally dumped waste.
The residents kept complaining to the council, complaining to the Environment Agency, and they basically set up shop and watched and monitored as these lorries drove up and dumped all this waste and the pile just got bigger and bigger.
So that is an example.
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