Lucia Hodgson

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

I also think that...

You know, you can't change the fact that power is derived from the prime minister.

How you then split that between two locations, I think, could be very problematic.

So, yes, number 10 is imperfect.

I'm not sure that number 10 in the north is.

And adding another layer of sort of that kind of setup is helpful.

But you can get out and be amongst people and go and see things or talk about things you care about without any of it being about number 10.

You can just let that building sort of sort itself out whilst you actually focus on the priorities that matter.

It's not great, is it?

It really is.

The signal's a big problem, actually.

The signal's a big problem.

The food was definitely lacking.

You could get a decent slice of toast in the morning and then you would just go out of the building to try and find something.

But for me, better coffee would be the start.

Well, this is also possibly the problem with a number 10 north.

How quickly will all of this happen?

But I do think that the setup of the building is problematic.

You know, a prime minister might expect to be able to step outside of the office and have 20, 30 people, you know, determined by his priorities and who's actually there.

know the diary person the chief of staff there is no room for them and you know the the next available office is sort of down one of the rabbit warrens and and so on and it is imperfect and i think that i mean i know the signal sounds like a silly point but it's a really important point and that's one of my over overwhelming memories of of coming in is not being able to respond to the people are supposed to be helping out um in the press i think there's

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