Rhun ap Iorwerth

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317 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · 'A bad start even before he starts' - Welsh First Minister on why trouble's brewing with Burnham · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

We should be tackling that as a Labour Party.

Well, he could be in power.

So you think that's a good idea.

So it's a bad start even before he he starts.

And when you consider the criticism that was levelled so early at Keir Starmer in his premiership that somehow he'd gone against the values that people had expected of a Labour Prime Minister, mm

There's a real risk for Andy Burnham in being seen to shed some values and beliefs around devolution and funding that people would expect him to put uh put put in place.

I will say this though, I have uh as I did to Keir Starmer, my offer is genuine that I want to have a constructive relationship.

It's not all about the Barnett uh formula.

I will make the case for that, and it does need uh changing, but there are other elements too around funding.

HS2 uh rail, the way that we're able to

So there's lots to talk about, but a warning for him, yeah, we're we're keeping an eye on him.

We're not waiting for him to get the keys to number ten before the holding to account takes place.

maybe angry with Keir's Dalmer pretty quickly.

Well, I I we spoke in the early days of my uh leadership as first minister, and it was the kind of positive conversation that I wanted to have.

I made it clear there were things that we needed to talk about, and I was really keen to talk about them as quickly as we could.

I laid out what my ambitions for Wales were, that they would be different to his, but there are things that he could do that that he should be interested in around devolution.

Of course we never got to

have the meeting.

And and not even a meeting.

Not even.

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