Is there more to Andy Burnham than just the vibes?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Andy Burnham has launched his campaign video for the Makerfield by-election. The first thing you notice is how comfortable he sounds in it. It’s a level of human communication almost unfamiliar in today’s politics - with a pitch not just to the constituency but to the nation. But is there more to him than the chips and gravy good vibes? And does he have an actual plan not just for Makerfield but for the country?
We speak to Neal Lawson - who is inside the Burnham camp - about how he thinks about politics, and what would be different if he ran the country.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | I was born in Liverpool, but my journey began in this area. |
| 0:17.7 | This is a man now trying very hard to fight as an insurgent, as a Mancunian, taking on Westminster and saying, |
| 0:24.6 | they don't understand you, I do. |
| 0:27.6 | Let's remember what's happening to the Labour Party. It's in the existential crisis. |
| 0:31.6 | It's Burnham or bust. |
| 0:32.6 | And where are we? Where are we less than two years later? |
| 0:36.6 | You're in a different party. |
| 0:38.3 | We're here. |
| 0:39.3 | We're here. |
| 0:41.3 | Where are we? We're here. |
| 0:43.3 | You used to be there. |
| 0:45.3 | One of the things that made me most proud recently is someone saying on a doorstep. |
| 0:49.3 | Nice to see it. |
| 0:50.3 | Andy's all right. He's for us. |
| 0:53.3 | I am for us. |
| 0:55.6 | All of us. |
| 1:02.0 | Oasis playing out Andy Burnham there on his own campaign video. |
| 1:06.8 | A campaign video that is trying simultaneously to talk to the people of Makerfield, where he's fighting a by-election, to the people of the Labour Party who might elect him as their next leader, and to the country as a whole, ending on that shot of Westminster. |
| 1:24.4 | That video was one of the most effective bits of political communication |
| 1:28.5 | we've seen from the Labour Party, from anyone in the Labour Party for a long time. It was |
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