The Brexit Bus is coming (and Andy Burnham’s jumping)

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Andy Burnham's candidacy in a local by-election and the resurgence of Brexit in political discourse.

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. And OGWN is nine years old! Today: A Labour candidate up against a local plumber in a North-Western by-election? It’s beginning to feel a lot like Groundhog Day. If Andy Burnham beats Reform’s Robert Kenyon in Makerfield his path to Number 10 gets a lot clearer. But has Burnham just walked into a Reform bear trap? Plus: Brexit is back, right on cue. Wes Streeting lobs a grenade into the Burnham campaign by raising the Europe question. Could this leadership battle finally break Britain out of its Brexit loop of denial? And in the Extra Bit for Patreons, we do that Find Your Politics thing to discover whether we’re secret Leninists or Freemen of the Land without realising it. (And why no talk of the Greens, you ask? We did a big will-they-won’t-they bit and then they announced a candidate so we had to drop it. More next time). • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk. ESCAPE ROUTES • Marie is getting set to host her Outsiders Art Club, a social club putting emerging artists in the spotlight • Matt has been bingeing Imperfect Women on Apple TV. • Raf went to see…

People in this episode

Hosts: Marie Le Conte, Matt Green, Rafael Behr, Andrew Harrison

Topics covered

• Brexit
• Labour Party
• by-elections
• political campaigns
• Andy Burnham
• Reform Party

Keywords

• Brexit
• Andy Burnham
• by-election
• Labour
• Reform
• Wes Streeting
• politics
• UK elections

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Labour, Reform

Books & works: Imperfect Women

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