Blue Labour, ‘Manchesterism’ and Lords reform: your questions answered

Politics Weekly UK

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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What is Blue Labour? Can Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’ be replicated elsewhere? And is the two-party system over in British politics? In a special episode, Pippa and Kiran take your questions. Please keep sending them to politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:12.0	I'm Pippa Carrera.
0:13.5	And I'm Kieran Stacey.
0:14.8	And you are listening to Politics Weekly for The Guardian.
0:20.7	Hello. Hello. It's recess. Hello.
0:21.7	Hello.
0:22.7	It's recess.
0:23.8	Finally.
0:24.5	And we are taking a breather this week.
0:26.7	So instead of our usual podcast, we're taking the opportunity to record another special with some of the many, many questions you've been sending us.
0:34.1	And thanks, as always, for sending those in.
0:36.7	We've received loads. So here are a few
0:38.5	we thought might be useful and relevant for where we are today. Please do keep sending them in.
0:43.3	We promise we read all of them. All right. Well, we've had lots on labour, unsurprisingly. So we thought
0:48.9	we'd start with those. First up is Eva. Hi, Pippa, Kieran and John.
0:54.5	I have a question for the podcast.
0:56.6	What actually is Blue Labor?
0:59.4	Please could you do an episode on Labour Party factions?
1:02.6	Many thanks, a confused politics A-level student, Eva.
1:06.9	An episode on Labour Party factions, I think I might need a series for that.
1:10.6	We might need to do factions and sub-factions and sub-sub-factions,
1:14.6	given some of the conversations we've been having over the last few days.
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