Lord Stewart (Stuart) Wood

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Newscast · What No 10 Will Really Be Like For Andy Burnham · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

So for three months he can set out agenda, but you're right that

I mean, you can't turn around the cost of living crisis in six months, but you can do things which are plausibly connected to it, right?

Both long-term changes, maybe things like the way our energy prices are way too high, you start looking at that, but also some short-term things, maybe on buses, maybe on energy.

We've got an energy price cap coming in in September.

That's a moment.

So, yeah, there's all sorts of levers you could pull.

So by Christmas, you can say, you see, I've made a start on these things.

With Gordon Brown, because he was at the Treasury, even if he didn't like Gordon Brown, he was successful politically at the Treasury for 10 years.

It was difficult for him to get out of Treasury mode and become a Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham won't have that problem, I think.

He's had different jobs in central government as well.

It's a very moving moment, I think, especially if you've been loyal.

We were talking earlier on about people who've been loyal to Andy for years and years.

The first thing you do is, famously, you sign letters.

handwritten letters to the people who are in charge of our nuclear subs in the event that communications cut off and there's a conflict and this is what you open the letter to know what to do with your missiles.

And it's a real concentration of the mind because it is a conscience moment.

but it's also a national security moment and it makes you realise the magnitude of your job.

Straight away, you get brought into number 10, the door opens, people in military uniforms are there, the flunkies like me get shut out and there's a half hour of just those people.

And I think that concentrates the mind and then you're straight into the agenda.

And the key thing about being in number 10 is you could just let events and appointments overwhelm you every day unless you have the strategic nous to take a grip and try and direct the machine.

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