How can Starmer’s cabinet look each other in the eye?
5/19/202620 min
Andy Burnham makes his opening pitch to the voters of Makerfield but is he already in campaign mode for PM, as well as MP? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy discuss his launch video.
Back in London, there’s a cabinet meeting this morning. Just how awkward will that be for Keir Starmer? Especially with those who were pushing him to have a plan to leave office.
And what happens over the next few weeks in government if a minister has said that don’t want the PM and the PM doesn’t have confidence in a minister?
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsAnne McElvoy· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, good morning and welcome. It's the official endorsement any Labour politician would kill for. In last night's by-election campaign video released by Andy Burnham, his four-minute pitch for Makerfield, but also to the country. He walks around central Manchester to the sound of Oasis's 1995 hit, Some Might Say. The Manchester Evening News confirmed last night that the Oasis brothers had given permission for the track to be used. My name is Anne McElvoy from Politico.
Sam Coates· Host0:34
And I'm Sam Coates of Sky News. There's a hit, frankly, from Oasis for every Labour figure. Definitely Maybe for Wes Streeting, particularly after last week. We'll come on to some polling that suggests why it was definitely maybe not. Um, Cigarettes & Alcohol for Angela Rayner. She continued to lead into it, so pretty unashamed there. And will Keir Starmer be humming Standing on the Shoulder of Giants maybe after June the 18th? Who knows. Uh, collectively, perhaps the Labour Party could do with a spell of listening to The Masterplan.
Anne McElvoy· Host1:05
Oh, [laughs] enough already. But before we roll with it, [laughs] I had to do one last one. Delighted to be in great company. Turns out we've been nominated for Best Political Podcast in the Society of Editors Awards, and we're alongside the greats, including our friends over at Electoral Dysfunction, The News Agents, Rest is Politics, and the New Statesman Daily Politics, among