Andy Burnham has a plan for Britain
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Inside his Manchester kingdom, Labour’s prince across the water outlined his radical blueprint to the New Statesman's editor, Tom McTague.
Tom McTague joins Will Lloyd to discuss the mayor's vision.
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| 0:39.1 | Andy Burnham has got a plan, and it involves regime change. |
| 0:44.1 | The Manchester Mayor is the cover star of the New Statesman today, an exclusive interview |
| 0:48.6 | with our editor, Tom McKeague. |
| 0:50.4 | Burnham has put forward a philosophy of national government. |
| 0:54.0 | It's explicitly left-wing, and I think we can all agree quite deliberately timed to coincide with the start of Labour Party conference this weekend. I'm Will Lloyd and this is the New Statesman podcast. It's fair to say that that interview, Tom, has caused a little bit of trouble. You have a mischievous grin on your face |
| 1:12.5 | for our listeners. I don't know if you realised it was Labour Party conference. The other new statesman. |
| 1:17.1 | Who could have foreseen? Who could have foreseen it? Let's talk about the impact this |
| 1:22.6 | interview's already had. It's been picked up by almost every major British media outlet. |
| 1:28.2 | Is that what Andy Burnham would have wanted when you spoke to him last week, when you went to Manchester last week? |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah, I did ask them after the interview had come out. |
| 1:36.9 | I said, have you had any calls on this? |
| 1:38.6 | They said, just a few. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, no, it's been everywhere. |
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