The Week: When Burnham Met Trump
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What is the opening banter and who are the hosts of today’s Newscast episode?
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Alex Ossyth is here in the newscast studio in person. Hello. Hello. So used to seeing you in a little box from Westminster.
It's actually a joy to see your face. Thank you. The real thing.
Um smaller in real life.
I'm much smaller than that giant Westminster
screen, like the hugest floating head. Um, how's your hundred days challenge going?
Actually quite good.
Oh, okay.
Yeah. So my challenge is to read the Iliad, which is this epic Greek poem written by someone called or a collection of people called Homer. And I did confess to Newscasters not so long ago that I hadn't even started it.
I heard, I heard
awful. But now I am well and truly into it.
So I've had such a classical month. So obviously watch the Odyssey at the cinema. Which I
haven't yet seen. How? I know, I read the poem so I could watch the film and I've not seen it. You're waiting for IMAX. You're waiting for IMAX.
Um so saw the Odyssey. Then I saw Kate Blanchett in Electra at the theatre. And instead of s going to the theatre, I should have been running because my challenge is to run five hundred K in a hundred days. And I've done so far two hundred and eighty seven point six eight kilometers, which sounds good.
It sounds amazing to a non runner like me.
Yeah, but then you realise there's still two hundred and twelve kilometres to go and only thirty three days. How many kilometres is that a day? Six point something. You can do it.
Just get those running shoes on.
And we'd love to hear how you're getting on with your hundred days challenges. Give us an update. Newscast at bbc.co.uk, or you can WhatsApp us on 0330-123-9480. Now, here's something else to distract me from running. Our look back at the week's news. It's the episode of Newscast, which was broadcast on BBC One on Thursday night. Newscast.
Newscast from the BBC. Humanity's next great voyage begins. I don't know
the
Prime Minister is,
mate, do you? I'm Andy and I I'm not looking my best right now. I see that he was I guess the mayor of a town. Ooh la la.
Oh my god. Thinking about it like a panto helped.
Do we play music now or what do we do? And
what will you do? Stare at a wall.
How does Andy Burnham describe his personal “hundred‑days challenge” and what does it reveal about his leadership style?
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast Studio.
And it's Alex in the Newscast Studio.
And we're joined by a couple of friends of the podcast. Please welcome from Washington DC, Chief North America correspondent Gary O'Donohue. Hello, Gary.
Hello, lovely to be here.
When everyone's been in America this week, you've decided to come in the other direction. Well only just now. Okay. Oh true, so you weren't there for the bit. And also with us is Tom McTague who's the editor of the New Statesman magazine. Hello, Tom. Hello, thanks for having me on. And you've been hanging out with Andy Burnham for this week's cover story. I have, but not in America. No. In here. Where was it? Where was it?
It was on a train heading north was the Oh Cal Saprice. And um and a long conversation over the phone, uh on on on Sunday night. Um so that was that was interesting 'cause you sort of catch him out of his you know, out of his prime ministerial mode, you know, uh on a on a Sunday with his family and then on the phone to me unfortunately for him.
Or maybe I'm sure he enjoyed it. But also that's an interesting insight into how your job is different from ours, 'cause if we were doing an interview with Andy Burnham it would be a sort of set piece thing. You're maybe with him for half an hour and that's it. Whereas actually you want to get into his brain at a few points.
Yeah, I think the thing with these um long profiles that I try to do is that you want to spend a multiple times with him. You want to sort of get to know him or any you know, any of these uh big political figures.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and who are the hosts of today’s Newscast episode?
0:00–2:31
2
How does Andy Burnham describe his personal “hundred‑days challenge” and what does it reveal about his leadership style?
2:31–5:36
3
What insights did the New Statesman interview uncover about Burnham’s family background and political motivations?
5:36–10:27
4
How did Andy Burnham’s meeting with President Trump in New York shape UK‑US relations and what were the key take‑aways?
10:27–15:56
5
What does the multi‑level regression and post‑stratification (MRP) poll predict for the next UK general election?
15:56–20:30
6
Why is AI a central theme of Burnham’s United Nations speech and what stance does he take?
20:30–24:45
7
How are devolution, local control and the “postcode lottery” being debated as part of Burnham’s agenda?
24:45–29:24
8
What are the broader political implications of the poll results for Labour, the Conservatives, Reform and the Liberal Democrats?
29:24–34:10