Q&A: Is Andy Burnham being unrealistic?

The Two Matts

The New World

News, News Commentary, Government, Politics

4.4 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Today on The Two Matts podcast, Matt d'Ancona and Matt Kelly again respond to your queries.

They discuss whether Andy Burnham has unrealistic standards for politics and whether he is the right person to run the country. Plus, is it alarming or alarmist to fear about Tommy Robinson’s potential path to power? The Matts talk about what the real point of the UN is, if there is a case for ID cards and, following the New World’s political editor James Ball’s brilliant interview with Ed Davey, what they took away from the Lib Dem conference.

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