545. Burnham Beats Reform: Britain’s Next Prime Minister?
6/19/202644 min
Has Andy Burnham’s huge victory against Reform in Makerfield shown the Labour Party how it can beat Farage? What does this defeat mean for the right, and how tricky will the coming months be for Andy Burnham? What does the Tory victory against the SNP in Aberdeen mean for British energy policy?
Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more.
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First 90 secondsAlastair Campbell· Host0:01
Labor have won the crucial by-election in Makerfield, and they have won it big. Nearly twenty-five thousand votes for Andy Burnham, fifty-five percent of all ballots cast. These are normally words that would delight the leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. But it was in effect Andy Burnham's application to the Labor Party to oust Keir Starmer and put him into Downing Street instead. So does this thumping victory, one in an area where Reform battered Labor in the local elections in May, spell the end of the Starmer premiership? How has it come to this, and what happens next? Also, what does the big win for the Tories in Aberdeen South against the SNP mean for the UK and the Scottish government's policies on energy? It was quite a night in British politics. This episode is brought to you by Fuse Energy.
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