Laura Kuenssberg

Everything stops for a while.

You know, we know in this country already people look at government and think, oh my God, it doesn't work.

I love that.

Yes.

But voters are volatile now, you see.

So this is a two way street, isn't it?

Voters are willing to move, much more willing to move around.

And so were prime ministers.

And which was first?

Who knows?

But it's a mirror.

You know, this is also happening because voters don't vote in the ways where they used to, where reliably political parties used to think, oh, well, there are voters in the northwest of England, said the Labour Party, or there are voters in the southeast of England, felt the Conservatives.

And I think something that's not been discussed that much yet is

Andy Burnham is, to a lot of people, they know who he is, right?

He's famous.

He's well known.

He has personal popularity, which most politicians don't, right?

However, his whole shtick about putting the North of England and the people of Makerfield at the heart of every decision that he makes, and he talks about Makerfield as a kind of proxy for all the towns and villages around the country that have been left behind, is the kind of shtick that he goes with.

There are going to be a lot of voters that don't like that.

There are going to be voters, potentially, particularly in the south of England, maybe in other parts of the country, who think, well, hang on a minute, why is the northwest more important than everybody else?