Andy and Wes begin their leadership campaigns... sort of
Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips
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4.0 • 156 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy speaks to Trevor Phillips as Keir Starmer faces ongoing pressure to resign. Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham are supposedly waiting in the wings but will they finally pull the trigger on a leadership contest.
Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch is also on the show and reflects on her new found fame within American rap stars.
Plus, could a change of Labour leader actually help Labour in the next election? Chief Executive of Ipsos UK and Ireland Kelly Beaver joins Trevor in the studio.
Our panel this week Former Editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber, Political Editor at the New Statesman Ailbhe Rea and Editor-at-Large of the Sun - Harry Cole.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips. |
| 0:09.0 | The Labour Party wants a new boss, and at least two of its leading lights, |
| 0:13.0 | where Streeting and Andy Burnham reckon it should be them. |
| 0:17.0 | Maybe Angela Rainer does too, which is a relief, because for a while there, it seemed like nobody wanted the job. |
| 0:24.6 | Absolutely not, and I don't want to be leader of the Labour Party. I'm very happy and honoured to do the job. |
| 0:29.6 | What kind of politician are you? You don't want to be leader of your party? |
| 0:32.6 | No, I'm very happy and honoured and to be Deputy Prime Minister of this country. |
| 0:37.8 | You know this is being recorded, don't you? |
| 0:39.5 | Because actually, that means one day, if you do, somebody's going to play it back to you? |
| 0:44.2 | Absolutely. I'll be happy for you to play it back to me. |
| 0:46.8 | I have no desire to go for the leadership of the Labour Party. |
| 0:50.6 | My desire is to deliver for the people of this country who have given me opportunities beyond what I could have dreamed of. Say the word never. Never. Are you ready to |
| 1:00.2 | take on the mantle if and when the call comes? I'm ready to do the job that I've been asked to do |
| 1:05.4 | as the country's health secretary. There is no other job I would rather be doing. The question I want to |
| 1:09.1 | ask you that I asked Angela Rainer is you say there's only one job |
| 1:13.6 | you're interested in, and it's one you've got now. |
| 1:16.4 | And I said to her, does that mean that you would never be interested in the top job? |
| 1:23.4 | Same question to you? |
| 1:24.2 | I know exactly what you're up to and it's mischief making and it's a load of rubbish and I'm not entertaining it. |
| 1:29.9 | Mischief making? |
| 1:31.2 | Moi? |
| 1:32.3 | Come on. |
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