Peter Walker
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987 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Sep
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We knew it was the case.
But that cemented it, the fact that there was no pushback whatsoever.
It was just...
You know, this moment of calm you always get before a big change like this, where everyone hunkers down and decides in this case, not if it's going to be done, but how it's going to be done.
The chances are very much there will not be a contest.
It'll be Andy Burnham only who goes for it.
It's always possible.
You might have a minister who just fancies their chances, but it would be quite a controversial and a divisive thing to do because they would be pretty certain that Andy Burnham would win the contest.
If there's more than one person who gets the necessary support from Labour MPs and it goes to a vote of Labour members,
But that takes weeks and weeks.
So Kirstein was setting out that if there was a contest, you would not get a prime minister before probably September by the time the Commons comes back from its summer break.
But now it seems very, very likely.
I mean, it's still a quite leisurely timetable that nominations don't even open till early next month.
And it means that we are unlikely to get Andy Burnham, assuming it is him, in number 10 before mid-July.
So it means Keir Starmer gets to go to the NATO summit in Turkey earlier in the month.
And he kind of gets, you know, three or four weeks to do whatever legacy projects you want to do.
And it's this quite fascinating period that prime ministers, when they've announced they're going to go, it focuses their mind on
You had Theresa May in particular had a period of about six weeks where she told the party she was going to go.
And I was talking to one of her former staffers a couple of weeks ago who was pointing out that she spent a lot of it making sure that the landmark bill, which made the UK the first major economy to set net zero targets, went through.
And she got it through about two weeks before she left.
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