Burnham’s coronation without scrutiny, Farage donor storm and Britain’s defence disaster
About this episode
Julia Hartley-Brewer discusses the scrutiny of Andy Burnham's political ambitions with guests Lord Daniel Hannan and Sir Iain Duncan Smith, alongside topics of welfare and funding controversies.
Lord Daniel Hannan and Sir Iain Duncan Smith on Andy Burnham’s vague route to No10, Nigel Farage’s funding row, Britain’s broken welfare state, Trump’s NATO ultimatum and why Labour risks becoming the biggest appeasement government since the 1930s — plus England’s World Cup thriller and the row over who really pays for our politics Keir Starmer’s premiership may be collapsing into its final act… but Julia Hartley-Brewer asks whether the man almost certain to replace him, Andy Burnham, is facing anything like the scrutiny he deserves. Lord Daniel Hannan warns the media may be repeating the mistake it made with Starmer: letting a would-be prime minister glide into power on warm words, vague promises and slogans about “change” — without asking what he would actually do. Burnham talks localism, council houses and transformation, but Hannan says the real tests are brutal: will he tear up the regulations, judicial reviews and eco-rules that stop Britain building homes, infrastructure and energy projects? And will he genuinely decentralise power — including giving councils real responsibility over welfare? Sir Iain Duncan Smith is even blunter, saying Burnham’s pitch is so vague that…
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