Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Andy Burnham coming out on top as preferred Labour leader in new poll

A new poll shows people in the UK are in the mood for a leadership change.

An exclusive YouGov poll for Sky News shows Andy Burnham has overtaken Keir Starmer as the preferred Labour leader.

UK correspondent Enda Brady explained the results further. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with us Hello.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Inda, Hey Heather, great to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Right, So Andy would beat Keir would he?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
That is the polling, the latest yug of poll out
this morning on this that if it comes down to
a straight race between Andy Burnham, currently Mayor of Manchester
but shortly I would imagine heading to victory in the
Northwest in that constituency of Makerfield in this by election
that's been created for him to get back into Parliament.
It would be fifty nine percent of Labor members would

(00:29):
vote for Burnham and only thirty seven percent would stick
with Kerr Starmer. And then it gets even better for
Burnham because if it ends up being Burnham against Wes Streeting,
the former Health Minister, it will be eighty percent against
ten voting for Streeting. So it's very much Andy Burnham's
to lose.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Have you seen the pictures of him jogging? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Do you know what? I love this anytime a politician
has to show a bit of energy, And I'm a
runner myself. I love us, even Boris Johnson, Boris john
everyone is a runner. Every one has it in them.
And I don't want to sound in any way kind
of like I'm putting people down for having a goal.
But Boris Johnson even figured out that. You know, but
one thing I'd say to Barnham, he actually had nice

(01:10):
running kit and he looked good, whereas like Boris Johnson
just fell into.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Do you remember Boris?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
As though there was that photograph we had on the
red beanie and then do you remember and they heard
the red Hawaiian shirt, shoes, shorts sorry, and then like
a blue Rugby polo shirt and then like a green
tramping Like the whole thing was just honestly, he looked
like a homeless person.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And they let him run the country. So yeah, it
is quite staggering. I mean you wouldn't you, honestly what
he lives near me here in Oxfordshire, you wouldn't let
I see him around. You wouldn't let the man run
a bath. Somehow he ended up running Britain.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, Like I'm just gonna pull you up though on
Andy's running kit, because it's not that god like his
shorts are passable, that like really short Eddie's shorts and
I show he's got.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Some hairy legs that their hair goes all the way up.
But then running around in a football Jersey's not cool,
is it.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, it's not no, no, no, we need to sort
him out. Look, I know Andy, I like him. He
is a soccer fan. He's an Everton fan in the
English Premier League. He's a very interesting man and he
works extremely hard. But look, I would imagine some spin
doctor has said you need to be outrunning because there's
photographers out the front waiting for you to leave, and
it's probably whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
He could get hold of, yeah, and just look like
an every day dead and so he did. Now what's
going on with these high street shops that every kind
of being used as frants for gangs.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well the police are getting an injection of funds from
government to tackle this. So we have a problem, and
it is bad. If you go to any town or
city in Britain, walk far enough, you will see these
vape shops. You will see American and I hate to
use the word candy, but American candy stores. And you
will see all these barbershops in the most strange places.

(02:49):
And I've noticed because I saw this one barber shop
and I never saw anyone go into it for hours
and hours and hours on end. So I thought, you
know what, I'm going to go get a haircut and
sure enough, they wouldn't let you pay by car. It's
all cash only. So it all adds up and the
government has It's taken a long time for them to
see the strength of organized crime in Britain. So there's

(03:09):
going to be sixty million dollars put into this National
Crime Agency will be boosted. That's basically Britain's answer to
the FBI. More police officers on the street and they're
going to crack down in regions like Greater Manchester, the
West Midlands, Essex and Kent. But these are criminal enterprises,
organized crime, and the government reckons that about two billion

(03:30):
dollars of criminal cashier year is laundered through these high
street dodgy shops.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's quite significant. Hey, I'm how cute were the pictures
of Charles and Biggs.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yes, yeah, the bromance continues between the King and Sir
David Beckham, Alan Titchmarsh getting a look in there as well.
At Chelsea Flower Show. My wife and my mother in
law have gone to it today it's open to the public.
Yesterday was the kind of VIPs and Royalty And what
really made me laugh was I didn't know this, but
they ban nomes. Garden homes are not allowed at Chelsea

(04:01):
Flower Show. But for the King and Beckham and Titchmarsh,
they a couple of weeks ago were asked to paint
a gnome of themselves and they posed for pictures and
the norms were on display yesterday, so there you go. Yeah,
well that's a little bit of an unusual one. The
King apparently is a fan of nolms and he moves
them around his allotment in High Grove in Gloucestershire.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
That's such a weird thing to do. Into Thank you
Into Brady, UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
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