Burnham's Brexit Betrayal
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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London police faced scrutiny after rival rallies brought 43 arrests, hate-crime investigations, and a £4.5 million security operation. Labour’s leadership tensions deepened as Wes Streeting’s pro-EU stance triggered Brexit backlash from Lisa Nandy, Conservatives, and Reform. Andy Burnham’s Makerfield by-election bid now risks becoming a proxy battle over Brexit, immigration, and Labour’s future direction.
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| 0:00.0 | It all kicked off last week, but of course the new sheriff in town, I think he'd like to be the new sheriff in town, although he's going to pick which town his sheriff in, is Andy Burnham, who it seems, ladies and gentlemen, is already in trouble. |
| 0:20.9 | The problem is, is that he's rather astute colleague slash fellow candidate, Wes Streeting, |
| 0:29.1 | who stuck his head above the parapet last week and resigned as health secretary, |
| 0:33.4 | sort of let off a bit of a bomb at the weekend by saying, you know, |
| 0:36.1 | I think, I think we should |
| 0:38.0 | rejoin the EU, as does Andy Burnham, by the way, which is slightly worrying for Burnham, |
| 0:44.9 | because the constituency in Manchester, Makerfield, voted, well, 63% and voted to leave in the |
| 0:51.4 | Brexit referendum, which means that reform are crowing right now, |
| 0:55.4 | because they're saying, well, we're just going to walk around saying, this man believes in doing |
| 1:01.2 | something that you didn't want, plus he's going to parachute himself in, right? Is he actually |
| 1:06.2 | going to be a constituency, impiously, just using you to get on now other people are very supportive? |
| 1:10.7 | Lots of papers talking about backlash over Brexit betrayal. |
| 1:14.9 | And what's really interesting is that over the weekend, Bairdham insisted, I will be campaigning |
| 1:21.8 | on local issues. |
| 1:23.3 | It's time for change. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm not saying anything about the EU. |
| 1:31.1 | But we've got a clip, haven't it was only last September oh Andy oh Andy we've got the clip Mr Burnham have a listen peeps |
| 1:36.3 | long term I'm gonna be honest I'm gonna say it I would I want to rejoin the |
| 1:40.9 | I hope in my lifetime I see this country rejoined the European Union. I'm absolutely |
| 1:46.0 | clear about that. I believe in unions of all kinds, the union that is the UK, the European Union |
| 1:52.9 | benefited this country, trade unions. People get prosper more when they're part of unions, of countries |
| 1:59.7 | or whatever. That's my belief. So I'm going to say it clearly. Countries prosper more when they're part of unions of countries or whatever that's my belief so i'm |
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