Does Burnham have a plan? (No)
6/22/202619 min
Andy Burnham is back in Westminster, Sir Keir Starmer has resigned and Wes Streeting has said he will not contest the leadership election. Labour rebels will be celebrating that their plan has gone off without a hitch.
Now King Andy’s attention turns to the small matter of how he might run the country. He needs to assemble a team, and a set of proposals, that can appeal to the country and – more importantly – the PLP. Will he be afforded the time he wants to come up with a plan? Who is in line to be his chancellor?
Elsewhere, Nigel Farage has called for a general election and those cries are only going to grow louder as time goes on – will Burnham have to call one?
Tim Shipman and Noa Hoffman discuss.
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First 90 secondsTim Shipman· Host0:00
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Noa Hoffman· Host0:43
And I'm Noah Hoffman.
Tim Shipman· Host0:45
And what are we gonna talk about? Well, we are having, ladies and gentlemen, our seventh prime minister in 10 years. Keir Starmer announced that he was resigning as leader of the Labour Party, and Wes Streeting, who resigned recently as health secretary, said he is not going to contest that election. So it looks on the face of it like we are on course for an Andy Burnham premiership before very much longer.
Noa Hoffman· Host1:08
Yes, and I do think a lot of the public are going to be annoyed about this. They're going to be annoyed about the short-termism. They're going to be annoyed that a man is about to walk into Downing Street, and we will go into this a bit further, effectively coronated by Labour MPs. He was voted into Parliament by thousands of people in Makerfield, but beyond that, nobody voted for