Lucy Fisher

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792 appearances 16 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 20 Jul

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FT News Briefing · Political Fix: Makerfield or bust: Burnham goes for broke · 14 Jun 2026 podcast

His argument has been that, in fact, Starmer's gone ahead and committed the UK to all sorts of other military initiatives, including the UK taking a leading role in post-peace deal international forces in Ukraine, in the Strait of Hormuz.

The UK has just taken up a leading role in a new mission for NATO in the Arctic.

At the same time, the threat picture is rising.

So we're seeing increased Russian malign activity that the Navy and others are having to respond to.

So the demands on defence are going up.

So Healy said, you know, when the facts change, you have to respond to that.

So let's fast forward ahead to next week.

Let's imagine if reform loses the polls and the bookies think they're going to.

I wondered whether that will mean, especially after losing Gorton and Denton by election earlier this year, a second loss.

Will that mean them losing momentum as a party?

And I put that question to Farage when he was in Makerfield on Wednesday.

Mr Farage, thank you.

Firstly, I wanted to ask you, Reform lost the Gorton-Edenton by-election earlier this year.

If the party loses next week, are you concerned that it might be losing momentum?

Jim, do you think that it could signal that reform is losing momentum if they lose the race next week?

And so if we imagine next Thursday that Burnham wins, what do we think might happen then?

It seems to me, from what I'm picking up, there's a bit of a split in his camp about whether he should go all guns blazing to challenge Stammer immediately and capitalize on his own momentum.

or else to delay things and allow himself, his team, whoever they may be, to try and get their plans for government in better shape before any contest, before entering Downing Street.

And I was struck that one cabinet minister said to me, look, as soon as he's in post, it will be an immediate path into the next budget.

It's a very difficult and important budget, which itself is a glide path to the spending review.

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