Paul Harrison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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This is The Guardian.
he'll go behind that black door and he will wander into the cabinet room and he'll see all those kind of sights that we've seen if we, you know, watch Love Actually.
He'll do all of that, but one of the very first things that he'll do is he'll get a briefing from the National Security Advisor.
And then this is a real kind of sober moment.
almost certainly completely by himself.
He'll sit in his office and he'll be given a set of letters and a shredder.
And the letters are about whether we should respond in the event of a nuclear attack or we shouldn't.
And they're duplicates and there are four of each because we have
four nuclear submarines that operate in the nuclear deterrent.
This is basically a process that every new prime minister does by themselves.
So he'll shred the ones he doesn't want and seal the others in envelopes.
Yeah, that's a huge decision that you've made.
A few hours after you've gone to see the king and he said, okay, you know, please form a government in my name.
There'll be a lot of stuff where Andy Burnham will want to pause and look around and think about what he's achieved by getting there.
I mean, it's an amazing thing.
But also how much kind of hope and responsibility is now invested in him.
As you say, it is very hibbledy-pibbledy.
In fact, the further down below stairs you go into the basement, the more it looks like a collection of sort of abandoned wedding furniture that's not even from the same wedding.
So yeah, it's very strange.
It's a bit of a rabbit warren.
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