Peter Walker

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Today in Focus · Starmer resigns as UK prime minister - The Latest · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

So who knows, Starmer might have stuff he still wants to get done.

I wouldn't want to be Andy Burnham now.

I think he's going to be starting with a lot of goodwill from the parliamentary party, or at worst, people willing to give him a chance.

But to be fair, that was a position Keir Starmer was in a couple of years ago, with the added credit that he'd won a general election win that a few years earlier, after the 2019 election, most people in Labour thought could never be done.

One advantage for Burnham is he's likely to take over just as the Commons recess kicks off.

So he'll have this period of about six weeks where he can make speeches, he can go on visits, he can do all that kind of prime ministerial stuff without having these quite awkward set-piece Commons debates and statements.

He's not been an MP since 2017.

He's been a cabinet minister before, he knows how it works, but he's going to have to get himself back into it.

I think the most important thing is that he has to set a sense of movement of things happening at a pace, but also this difficult balancing act of saying, look, I'm different.

I'm not like the old lot.

Whilst certainly before a general election, not having actually that much policy leeway, when he gave his speech in Makerfield, um,

which was the start of the by-election campaign.

I watched him do a whole series of clips and interviews with broadcasters and with us.

And he kept on saying, look, the manifesto is the manifesto.

We're elected on this.

So if I am in number 10, I can't go much beyond that.

So it's going to be a tricky balancing act.

With Chancellor, I mean, Rachel Reeves wasn't there.

To be honest, there were a lot of cabinet ministers who were not there.

There's been various names floated.

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