Victoria Derbyshire
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231 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Victoria Derbyshire’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She's having a weekend off and we are going to look at Andy Burnham's plan for the economy or what we think his plan for the economy might be.
And when I spoke to him in June, June, this is still June.
When I spoke to him on June the 5th, sorry, a lot has happened.
We talked about the economy, so that was not very long ago.
And he did say he would stick to Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves' rules, fiscal rules on managing the finances.
On the question of what they were, or if he could remind us what they were, he declined to answer that.
But this weekend, anyway, he is preparing a speech on the economy, which he's going to give on Monday.
Hello, it's Victoria in the studio.
And we're told that this weekend he is writing his speech in Manchester on Monday.
I'm told he writes all his own speeches.
And there's been a bit of newspaper briefing to The Times in particular today, which talks a lot about devolution.
And we know that Andy Burnham is a fan of devolution, obviously, because he's been a mayor of Greater Manchester for a number of years.
But we are told that that is something he wants to do more of in terms of handing power away from Whitehall to the regions around the country, should he become prime minister.
We have.
Can we come to those in a minute?
Because I can just tell you what the briefing to The Times was today.
because there have been one or two mutterings from MPs in the south of the country wondering if the south might lose out under a putative Andy Burnham premiership, because obviously he's a northerner.
According to The Times, he's going to suggest in this speech on Monday that the south is paying the price for the economic failure in the north, which would seem to be quite a clever framing, i.e.
the north does better, the south can pay less into the pot kind of thing.
He's also, according to The Times, going to reduce government budgets to increase local budgets and give regional authorities much more power to decide exactly what the money is spent on.
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