Wes Streeting Is Sabotaging Burnham’s By-Election
Novara Live
Novara Media
4.8 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Wes Streeting has invoked the B-word, and it’s not Burnham for once.
Plus: We talk to Ben Walker, co-founder of Britain Elects and Senior Data Journalist at The New Statesman, about his predictions for the Makerfield by-election when adjusted for ‘The Burnham Effect’, legal chaos continues as reporting restrictions covering the convictions of four Palestine Action activists are lifted, while contempt proceedings brought against one of their barristers are chucked out on appeal. Finally, Richard Hames took to the streets at this week’s rally to investigate what, if anything, unites the Unite The Kingdom movement.
With Michael Walker and Stephen Methven.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Navarra Live coming up tonight in what appears to be an attempt to sabotage Andy Burnham's by-election. |
| 0:10.0 | West Streeting has drawn battle lines over Brexit. I'm saying he would like Labour to support |
| 0:15.8 | rejoining the European Union. And we talked to Ben Walker, co-founder of Britain Alex and data journalist |
| 0:21.4 | at the New Statesman, who's done some very interesting polling when it comes to the makerfield |
| 0:25.9 | by-election. Also, Palestine activists have their convictions quashed. And we discuss with one of those |
| 0:34.4 | who has had their conviction quashed about that experience. |
| 0:38.4 | And stick around to the end of the show to hear from Navarra's own Richard Hames, |
| 0:42.4 | who has a new report from Toby Robinson's Unite the Kingdom Rally. |
| 0:46.9 | And we'll also have some clips of their terrible singing, not Richards, |
| 0:51.0 | the performers at the Unite the Kingdom Rally. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm Michael Walker, and I'm joined tonight by Stephen Mephven. |
| 0:58.0 | Great to have you on board. |
| 0:59.2 | Hey, Michael. How's it going? |
| 1:01.2 | Very well. |
| 1:02.2 | I avoided Central London this weekend, so Richard has sort of gone and, I suppose, |
| 1:10.2 | he hasn't put his life on the line. But he's done it for you. |
| 1:13.3 | He's done it for us. So I could just relax in Hackney instead of going to central London and seeing |
| 1:19.7 | lots of far-eyed people being a bit scary. Before we get into tonight's stories, we just want to say |
| 1:24.5 | a huge thank you to everyone who has signed up to support our work since we launched our fundraiser six days ago. |
| 1:30.9 | And we have massive plans to grow ahead at the next general election. |
| 1:33.8 | And with more people backing our work, we can do much more. |
| 1:37.3 | So thank you. |
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