Lord Stewart (Stuart) Wood
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Lord Stewart (Stuart) Wood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But put that to one side.
I think that's quite a smart thing politically to do, even though it's really squeaky bum territory for the senior ranks of the Labour Party.
That's exactly right.
Around Andy Burnham?
Well, I mean, Lou Haig, as you mentioned earlier on, is extremely important to Andy.
There's Annalise Midgley.
There's Lucy Powell.
There's lots of other people from Manchester who he's very close to.
He wouldn't want me to name them because they're behind-the-scenes people.
Right.
OK, well, you know who they are because I'm sure you chat to them.
But yeah, he's got he's got a circle of people and he's been building up.
I mean, it's not like he arrived with this sort of reservoir dogs team who are like he's arrived and he's and he's brought a few people in.
Remember, Andy Burnham doesn't know historically a lot of the members of the Labour Party in Parliament that well.
He left Parliament 10 years ago.
Most of the MPs are new since then.
So he's getting he spent a lot of time getting to know them in different caucus meetings and groups.
But he's accumulating a team and James Purnell was in a way the sort of key appointment, his old friend James Purnell, slightly surprising in the sense, but really smart because they're very good friends and represent different bits of the old Labour Party.
Yeah.
And you're told by security, you can't do this many visits.
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