165: Crash And Burnham

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What is an 'Andy Burnham’ and can it be stopped? Why has Donald Trump made a photocopy of the UN and called it the Board of Peace? And was this episode description drafted by AI for an overworked journalist? (No, it wasn’t.) Ian, Helen, Adam and Andy explore these questions and more.

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0:00.0	Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.
0:03.9	Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.
0:06.4	My name's Andrew Hunter-Mary and I'm here in the I-studio with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Ian Hizlop.
0:11.1	Today we are asking the most important question in world politics.
0:14.8	Who is Andy Burnham and what does he want?
0:17.0	And how can he be stopped?
0:19.1	Can I be an easy?
0:20.6	Well, I should explain exactly why we're talking about this now, because at time of writing, he's been banned by Kirstama and the Labour NEC from standing as an MP.
0:29.6	He's currently mayor of Greater Manchester and he would have to resign from that post in order to do it.
0:33.6	Now, I would say we did have a number crunch in the last issue, which was the number of U-turns by Kier-Starmer, up until going to press. And we did have to change that
0:42.9	several times in the course of the week, as we were putting the pages together. But that's
0:46.0	currently the situation. So, yeah, Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester. I mean, incredible
0:51.5	poll numbers, elected three times as mayor of Manchester.
0:54.8	He got 63.4% in 2017, 67.3% in 2021.
1:00.4	It's going up.
1:01.1	It's quite a rarity that the incumbent goes up.
1:03.1	And then 63.4% again in May 24 last time he stood.
1:07.0	So you can kind of see why people are thinking,
1:08.9	ooh, someone who actually the public seem to like and who might actually win some votes
1:12.4	might be a good thing for the Labour Party.
1:14.2	Has he been effective?
1:16.5	Has he done a good job in Manchester?
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