554. Burnham’s Worldview, Trump's Ceasefire Collapse, and Advising Count Binface
7/15/202659 min
Can Andy Burnham's 'Makerfield test' survive contact with a world of Trump, China, and a raging Iran crisis? Why did every one of Netanyahu's promises to Trump about the war with Iran - from destroying the ballistic missile programme to fomenting revolution - turn out to be wrong? What advice does Alastair have for Count Binface in his fight against Nigel Farage in Clacton?
Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more in this week's edition of Question Time.
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First 90 secondsRory Stewart· Host0:00
[upbeat music] On Monday, Andy Burnham is going to walk into Downing Street as our new prime minister, and all the questions initially are going to be about getting growth going and applying what Andy Burnham calls the Makefield Test to foreign policy. How is what Britain's doing in the world going to make difference to people on the ground? How's power going to be redistributed? But that doesn't get rid of the fundamental question, which is what is Britain's place in the world? What is our new prime minister going to make of Trump, of China, of AI, of Russia, of defense? And the honest answer is, I think we barely know. We might even ask whether British politics, domestic politics actually allows us to have a serious conversation about the really big issues that are going to define our lives abroad and at home. We've had a lot of questions about Andy Burnham's worldview, and we're going to get into some of them now in Question Time. [air whooshes] This episode is powered by Fuse Energy.
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