Lucy Fisher
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792 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucy Fisher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think there's a lot in that.
And indeed, if you look at where Manchester ranks in Europe-wide league tables for measures like growth and unemployment in recent years, it's right up there.
Although we should remember that many of the reforms and ideas that led to this idea of Manchesterism actually predate Burnham.
He simply carried on
Some of the ideas that originated with other luminaries of Manchester local government like Howard Bernstein.
I think on top of that, he's really played into this idea that he is the king of the north and wants to stand up to Westminster elites.
He'll look out for left behind communities and those that.
have been overlooked in recent years.
And then, of course, the fairly stunning result, we have to hand it to him, in the Makerfield by-election last week, where Reform UK picked up all the council seats just last month.
Reform is well ahead in the national polls of Labour.
And Burnham showed that he could take them on and beat them.
So that's a good platform for him to argue he's done it locally.
Now, if Labour appoints him to the top job of the party in the country, he can take that fight to Nigel Farage nationally.
Well, there is the sense that he hates to be unpopular and therefore, you know, his critics argue he can barely open his mouth without making a spending commitment.
Certainly the bond markets are watching very carefully for any signal of weaker fiscal discipline under him.
He has confirmed that he will stick to the fiscal rules.
but had a pretty turbulent ride on Newsnight in recent weeks when he was asked to name what the fiscal rules were.
And he sort of insisted, well, I'm not going to face an exam by the BBC.
But it was the public, I think, was left with the sense that he wasn't necessarily quite up to scratch on all the details of that pledge.
And there is a sense that, you know, he hasn't been tested.
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