Mark Paul

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The Claire Byrne Show · Andy Burnham will become UK Prime Minister later today · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, he at one stage would have been the favourite for the Chancellor role, but it seems that there are people around Andy Burnham who think that he will be too much of a lightning rod for criticism.

So Ed Miliband certainly will be in the Cabinet, possibly as Foreign Secretary.

Angela Rayner, you would expect, would be in the Cabinet, but not in one of the senior positions.

great officers of state.

But she is too big a figure and too powerful a figure to leave on the sidelines.

And you'd be leaving trouble for yourself, probably, if you're Randy Burnham, if you left her on the sidelines.

As to who will be the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, one of the names that I'm hearing who is a contender for that role is Pat McFadden, who is the son of two Irish-speaking parents from Falkara and Donegal.

He was previously

He flees around the Cabinet Office and was working Pension Secretary for Keir Starmer.

In another break with tradition, what Andy Burnham has also done is that it is believed that he has already told a lot of the ministers who are not going to be appointed to his Cabinet, who are already in existing positions, they already know, to stop them having to do that walk of shame, so to speak, up Downing Street.

and to give them a little bit of time to issue their own statements of resignation if they want to after he has spoken.

But we should see the full shape of his cabinet by the end of today.

And Wes Streeting, you also mentioned, it'll be interesting to see what job he gets.

I think if Ed Miliband gets Foreign Secretary as a kind of a second prize for not getting the Chancellor, well then that means Wes Streeting might be pushed out to a role like Secretary of State for Defence.

There will be a lot of big names in there, but he will also want some new names in there.

He won't want the cabinet to look and to feel at the sound like Keir Starmer's cabinet.

Well, you're right to identify the fact that he doesn't have his own mandate.

He has already indicated that he will broadly stick to the existing Labour election manifesto and the existing mandate that they already got from the British people in 2024.

Now, there is still room within that for him to do other things.

You would expect that in their first budget in the autumn, they will probably do something around capital gains tax, and they will generally go after and try and tax wealth moreover.

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