Willie Howard

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Liveline · "People can look out their front window and see a sense of decline..." · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

We have crumbling schools.

We have, you know, an education system that's not for purpose.

We can invest in things like people can get a doctor's appointment, which, to be fair, the waiting lists have come down since the Labour government has come in.

But you can make that a centrepiece, is having health care.

I think investing in things like British industry or making things in this country, again, so the economy isn't solely dependent on

an attractive financial, an extractive financial sector based in the city.

Things like apprentices for our young people.

Things like, like even if you look at the rail system, for me to get to Milton Keynes to London to get a daily ticket at peak time is about 70 pounds, which is, it's a 40 minute train journey.

If I got the same journey in Italy, it would cost me about 10 euros.

you know and it's things like that every single day you know we could look at things it costs you £70 sterling to go from Milton Keynes into London yeah at peak time yeah if I got a return ticket for peak time yeah to go in and out of the war if I bought it on the day for a single yeah and because I have a season ticket I think it works out as about £40 but it's going to cost me about £6,000 a year

You know, so it's so this is this is the type of stuff we're dealing with.

We have the highest energy prices in Europe, our energy, highest water prices in Europe, because these industries have been systematically sold to private companies that whose only rationale is to extract profits from people turning on the tap or turning on the light.

So he could make news in these that wouldn't cost the art.

And it's important to stress as well that these are popular policies with the British public as well.

So the British public is often, in terms of many of these policies, often to the left.

of the governments that we've had.

So I think if Barnum simply presents himself as a fish-and-ships kind of authentic northern version of Keir Starmer, it's not going to work.

He has an opportunity, he has a massive majority, he needs to be bold and he needs to really alter the direction that Labour are on because if they don't, they will end up in the political dustbin like other parties have before them in Europe.

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