Neal Lawson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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And I think that's right across the country.
People in this country have been voting for big change every election since Brexit.
And they haven't got it.
And already I see the walls closing in around Burnham with people, with ideas, you know, it's becoming a tighter and tighter circle.
When people say that he's at the height of his powers, you know, I wince because this has got to be the start of his powers.
Look, what's happened in this getting him into the premiership?
It both always looked impossible, unfeasible.
How could the mayor of Manchester become the prime minister?
He's not in parliament.
But it always looked to me as inevitable because it was just like the run up to 94 when Blair became leader.
No one believed he was going to be the leader until the last minute because everyone turned in the crisis of the Labour Party then to him as the likely saviour, just as they turned to Burnham after Gorton and Denton and the local elections and Starmer's obvious failure.
But in getting him into the premiership all he's done is reach what I would call base camp.
He's at the foot of the mountain and there is a steep incline to be navigated for which he's going to require the oxygen tanks, the supplies, the Sherpas and the route map to get him there.
And does he recognise that?
And is he going to bring all of that stuff together?
You know, or because if it fails, as I say, and as you've read out from the piece, you know, there are people waiting in the wings who want to dance all over the failure of effectively kind of liberal social democracy.
And that feels like a terrifying place.
Are you one of his sherpas?
He's still chatting to you?
Yeah, I haven't spoken to him.
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