Simon Tormey
speaker
107 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Simon Tormey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've turned it around in Manchester, give me a chance to do this nationally.
That's been very much part of his pitch.
And he really plays on that kind of ordinary Northern roots, Everton FC supporter,
Someone who's kind of very much at home talking to the ordinary guy in the street, running around in a pair of shorts and all these kind of images and hoping to use that as a way of kind of building credibility, but also then leveraging that what they call Manchester-ism, a sort of Burnham's ideology for national purposes.
Well, I think that's the $64,000 question, Sam.
He is a very capable political operator.
He is very good at sort of triangulating, finding the right tone of voice for the right kind of audiences.
I think when you're PM, everything is just scrutinized to the nth degree.
I think Burnham is a smarter political operator than Starmer.
But of course, only time will tell as to whether this actually works out.
And of course, the key issue is
that we're not due a general election until 2029.
But of course, then they're under pressure to revise that timetable because what is the legitimacy of Burnham himself?
He's just been made an MP.
And now he's talking about prime minister and you've got Farage and Kemi Badenoch and all the rest saying, hold on a second, before you do anything, we need another general election in order to give you that mandate and legitimacy.
And of course, they're thinking that if they go to a general election, then maybe even reform wins and we'll see a return of the Conservative Party.
Well, I think the electorate is very disenchanted.
I think there's a section which is very angry.
What Burnham has got to do then is get in front of the cameras, tell a convincing story and avoid obvious catastrophes and crises.
And a lot of that is really, frankly, as we know, outside of the control of the political class anyway.
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