Lucy Fisher
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792 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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And in a sense, it's almost more important when a party's already in office than in opposition, where they have time to finesse their offering to the country.
And indeed, I think some Labour MPs have seen the record of Theresa May, where some in her party were left thinking that if she'd had a whole summer of having her ideas tested,
rather than being crowned immediately when the final in that Tory leadership contest, Andrea Leadsom, dropped out, then, you know, her premiership might have gone better.
So, you know, it's not without risk allowing Burnham to sort of, you know, accede to the top role without much of a challenge.
So the nominations close next Thursday.
Burnham is set to be crowned Labour leader on the Friday.
And then on the following Monday, July the 20th, we are expecting to see Keir Starmer go to the palace, Buckingham Palace, to formally resign to the king.
Then Burnham will be invited by King Charles III to create, to form a government.
But we could yet see Burnham announce his cabinet on the Friday once he's become Labour leader.
He might start to show some ankle then.
on who his top picks for his cabinet are.
Absolutely, and I've been with Starmer in Ankara at the NATO summit this week, where he heavily hinted that if England were to win the World Cup, he'd also, in his final act as Prime Minister, grant an extra bank holiday.
Well, on the one hand, Burnham still faces all the challenges, all the fiscal constraints that bound Keir Starmer.
On the other hand, Starmer was derided by his critics as a very wooden performer.
He got himself into a bit of a pickle by implementing quite a left-wing programme, renationalising rail,
introducing a major packet of employment rights, introducing new rights for renters against landlords, you know, introducing breakfast clubs in schools.
And yet, under the auspices of his former chief of staff, the Irishman, of course, Morgan McSweeney, he was trying to tack rightwards in his political messaging.
so wasn't able to sell to the public all these left-leaning policies he'd implemented.
For Burnham, he won't have that problem.
So messaging isn't everything, storytelling isn't everything, but you can see already how he's more at home with his more sort of left-wing, socialist-leaning credentials.
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