Burnham, bonds and by-elections
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Felicity Hannah hears what the UK's political drama means for business. Elsewhere, Felicity gets an update on the cost of fuel for hauliers, hears about the impact of delays to the government's Defence Investment Plan, and learns how artificial intelligence is being used to commit fraud.
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| 0:34.6 | Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:36.6 | Poses were struck, emotions were high. I don't mean |
| 0:39.7 | Eurovision, I mean British politics. Fewer sequins. A by-election in June could now decide whether |
| 0:46.0 | Andy Burnham gets back into Parliament and can challenge for the leadership of the party and the |
| 0:50.9 | country. So you better get used to hearing about a certain part of |
| 0:54.3 | North West England. Ashton in Makerfield is now the centre of the universe as far as the |
| 0:59.8 | political map is concerned. Yes, that's right. The political universe will for about a month |
| 1:04.6 | shrink to the size of the parliamentary constituency of Makerfield. And Andy Burnham, |
| 1:09.5 | who is hoping to run for the seat, says the stakes |
| 1:12.3 | are high. We've got to just see this as a sort of kind of moment to reclaim the Labour Party, |
| 1:17.8 | to save it from where it's been. We will hear what the by-election and the expected challenge |
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