Andrew Marr on Burnham's Plan For Number 10
7/16/202632 min
Today, Adam is joined by legendary broadcaster Andrew Marr, who is one of the very few people to have interviewed Andy Burnham before he goes into number 10.
As Burnham prepares to take the reins of government, some things remain unclear about what he will do when he gets there. Who will be in his cabinet? And how will he tackle the economic challenges that faced Keir Starmer’s premiership?
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Get started at Planet Fitness for $1 down and then $15 a month. $49 annual fee applies. Deal ends July 16th. [gentle music] Hello. Andy Burnham has given an interview to a podcast. Not this one, unfortunately. He was speaking to Gary Lineker, who runs the Goalhanger stable of podcasts, and the top lines from it are that he is open to a wealth tax, 'cause he didn't rule it out. He has held the door open to maybe taxes rising overall, but he's equally said he won't do any of those things straight away, 'cause he wants to have a bit of time to think about it. Now, Andy Burnham has not done very many interviews in his pre-prime ministerial period. In fact, the only other one he did was with Andrew Marr on