The UK Government is looking into a potential pitch for the north of England to host the Olympics in the 2040s.
The assessment will examine the costs and socio-economic benefits, as well as the likelihood of bidding success.
UK Correspondent Enda Brady told Mike Hosking the move seems far-fetched, given the present political turmoil.
He says that in its current state, he doesn't think England is capable of hosting Eurovision, let alone the Olympic Games.
London has hosted the Games in 1908, 1948 and 2012.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On international correspondence with Insigne Eye Insurance peace of mind
for New Zealand business. I really am I boring on
being pointless indo Bridy's well, it's into how are you
good morning?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mike? Yeah, great, lovely to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And you too, rightly? Just this let me boon through
the starm of questions. One, but he's got the clearance
from the committee. Does he win the by election? Two?
If he wins the by election, does he win the
leadership vote?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So look, I'll answer the second one first. If Andy
Burnham wins the by election in the Greater Manchester area
in Makerfield, he will absolutely win the leadership of the
party and he will become the next prime minister. However,
it's not exactly a fool proof plan. It is not guaranteed,
and he has a lot of work to do and
it seems to be a big battle about bregsas that's
(00:51):
what's happened in the space of twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, has he put us foot in and on net
because I was watching some reaction from the area and
they went why would you now, Yes, he wants to
change the liber Party. I get that part, but why
would you introduce that when you're trying to win a
by election.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, because the constituency he's standing in voted overwhelmingly to
leave the European Union. Now breaks it is still haunting Britain.
For my money, it has been an absolute disaster for
the United Kingdom. I've just come back. I've been in
a European Union country and Latvia running a marathon. You
see all US EU passport holders cruising through passport control
(01:30):
and all the Brits lining up in their dozens, getting
fingerprinted and checked and everything being difficult, you know, economic
tumbleweed as well. It's been terrible. Andy Barnham is pro
europe we know that much. His previously previously said the
UK one day in his lifetime, we'll go back into
the European Union. Now he's been asked that question again
and he said, look, we need to respect the twenty
(01:51):
sixteen referendum. So he's kind of he's done a bit
of a flip flop. Alec here Starmer.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, how far out of the lift does the liber
Party move at Burnham win.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yes, it will move to the left. He wants to
renationalize things like transport and water and social housing. It
will be a big shift to the left. And the
guy who's likely to be facing him as well as
the Prime Minister on the ballot paper Wes Streeting, the
former Health secretary. He's very much to the right of
the Labor Party. So I think what Burnham will take
(02:23):
great confidence tonight. There is a poll out from you
goov suggesting that if it is burn Him up against Starmar,
Burnhum wins fifty nine percent, with Starmer on thirty seven percent,
and if it is burn Him against Streeting, Andy Burnham
will win eighty percent of the votes of the Labor membership.
He will crush Wes Streeting.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So it's his to lose, right if he doesn't win
the by election, do they still have a contest of
sorts for the leadership.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, if Wes Streeting can get the eighty one MPs
to publicly come out and say we will back you
over the Prime Minister, that then triggers a ballot.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But Stamer would win, that, wouldn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yes, I think he would. I think he'd see off
we strating. And you know, it's it's getting to the
stage now where I mean, yeah, it's an absolute mess.
It's a revolving door. And the UK will be looking
at a seventh prime minister in ten years. I mean
Blair lasted over a decade, Margaret Thatcher served over a decade.
Ado it would be the next person who comes in
would be a seventh prime minister since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So say Burnham Winds and he's the new leader, but
you're not voting till twenty twenty nine. Can a guy
be the Prime Minister of Britain for the letter pad
of twenty six all through twenty seven, all through twenty
eight and twenty nine, having not been elected by the
British people.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
He can try. I mean, this is what Liz Trust
wanted to do, this is what Richie Sunac wanted to do.
You can try and ride it out, but I think
there will be an overwhelming called saying you've no mandate,
you've stabs Starmer in the back. We wanted him for
five years. Some people feel that he is legitimate. I
met someone today. I met a guy from Oxford today
and he said, look, I'm not a fan of Starmer,
but he won five years.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Give him the chance to say, yeah, exactly by the
way you mentioned let Via, you ran into a New
Zealander there.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I just want to say a huge shout out. I've
been so impressed with this couple. A lovely, lovely young
female athlete from Gisburne called Georgia Hope running her first
marathon in Latvia and she smashed it. I ran with
her a little bit of the way, and I was
even more impressed by her fellow Josh. They lived together
in London and he hired a bike and he was
(04:29):
so committed to cheering his girlfriend on. I saw this
fella six times on the roof of a marathon and
he was zipping around Riga as if he was in Gisburne.
I was so impressed. So a huge shout anyone who
knows Georgia Hope and her family, she is a credit
to you. And her fellow Josh are just brilliant people.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
They made my weekend meeting them fantastic. By the way,
just quickly apropos nothing the northern part of England bidding
for the Olympics. Now there's a scoping study on this
land and sea is the dick Canty. London's the time
of all big events. Is Britain capable in its current
state of genuinely pitching for an Olympic Games in the
(05:08):
northern part of that great land.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
No, I don't think we'd be capable of hosting Eurovision
again here at the moment. Let's be Frank, Let's come on, Mike. No, No,
the Olympic Games in Sheffield or Doncaster. No, look, let's
just let's just try and keep a stable government, get
the bond markets right, get the cost of living down.
Not have the most expensive energy and electricity and gas
(05:31):
in Europe while we have unbelievable resources buried beneath the
North Sea. I could go on, let's just get the
house in order and then we worry about major global events.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Good on you, mate, lovely to catch up with you.
We'll talk so and appreciate it very much. Into Brady
out of Britain for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news Talks.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
On international correspondence with Insigne Eye Insurance peace of mind
for New Zealand business. I really am I boring on
being pointless indo Bridy's well, it's into how are you
good morning?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mike? Yeah, great, lovely to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
And you too, rightly? Just this let me boon through
the starm of questions. One, but he's got the clearance
from the committee. Does he win the by election? Two?
If he wins the by election, does he win the
leadership vote?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So look, I'll answer the second one first. If Andy
Burnham wins the by election in the Greater Manchester area
in Makerfield, he will absolutely win the leadership of the
party and he will become the next prime minister. However,
it's not exactly a fool proof plan. It is not guaranteed,
and he has a lot of work to do and
it seems to be a big battle about bregsas that's
(00:51):
what's happened in the space of twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, has he put us foot in and on net
because I was watching some reaction from the area and
they went why would you now, Yes, he wants to
change the liber Party. I get that part, but why
would you introduce that when you're trying to win a
by election.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, because the constituency he's standing in voted overwhelmingly to
leave the European Union. Now breaks it is still haunting Britain.
For my money, it has been an absolute disaster for
the United Kingdom. I've just come back. I've been in
a European Union country and Latvia running a marathon. You
see all US EU passport holders cruising through passport control
(01:30):
and all the Brits lining up in their dozens, getting
fingerprinted and checked and everything being difficult, you know, economic
tumbleweed as well. It's been terrible. Andy Barnham is pro
europe we know that much. His previously previously said the
UK one day in his lifetime, we'll go back into
the European Union. Now he's been asked that question again
and he said, look, we need to respect the twenty
(01:51):
sixteen referendum. So he's kind of he's done a bit
of a flip flop. Alec here Starmer.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, how far out of the lift does the liber
Party move at Burnham win.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yes, it will move to the left. He wants to
renationalize things like transport and water and social housing. It
will be a big shift to the left. And the
guy who's likely to be facing him as well as
the Prime Minister on the ballot paper Wes Streeting, the
former Health secretary. He's very much to the right of
the Labor Party. So I think what Burnham will take
(02:23):
great confidence tonight. There is a poll out from you
goov suggesting that if it is burn Him up against Starmar,
Burnhum wins fifty nine percent, with Starmer on thirty seven percent,
and if it is burn Him against Streeting, Andy Burnham
will win eighty percent of the votes of the Labor membership.
He will crush Wes Streeting.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So it's his to lose, right if he doesn't win
the by election, do they still have a contest of
sorts for the leadership.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, if Wes Streeting can get the eighty one MPs
to publicly come out and say we will back you
over the Prime Minister, that then triggers a ballot.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But Stamer would win, that, wouldn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yes, I think he would. I think he'd see off
we strating. And you know, it's it's getting to the
stage now where I mean, yeah, it's an absolute mess.
It's a revolving door. And the UK will be looking
at a seventh prime minister in ten years. I mean
Blair lasted over a decade, Margaret Thatcher served over a decade.
Ado it would be the next person who comes in
would be a seventh prime minister since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So say Burnham Winds and he's the new leader, but
you're not voting till twenty twenty nine. Can a guy
be the Prime Minister of Britain for the letter pad
of twenty six all through twenty seven, all through twenty
eight and twenty nine, having not been elected by the
British people.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
He can try. I mean, this is what Liz Trust
wanted to do, this is what Richie Sunac wanted to do.
You can try and ride it out, but I think
there will be an overwhelming called saying you've no mandate,
you've stabs Starmer in the back. We wanted him for
five years. Some people feel that he is legitimate. I
met someone today. I met a guy from Oxford today
and he said, look, I'm not a fan of Starmer,
but he won five years.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Give him the chance to say, yeah, exactly by the
way you mentioned let Via, you ran into a New
Zealander there.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I just want to say a huge shout out. I've
been so impressed with this couple. A lovely, lovely young
female athlete from Gisburne called Georgia Hope running her first
marathon in Latvia and she smashed it. I ran with
her a little bit of the way, and I was
even more impressed by her fellow Josh. They lived together
in London and he hired a bike and he was
(04:29):
so committed to cheering his girlfriend on. I saw this
fella six times on the roof of a marathon and
he was zipping around Riga as if he was in Gisburne.
I was so impressed. So a huge shout anyone who
knows Georgia Hope and her family, she is a credit
to you. And her fellow Josh are just brilliant people.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
They made my weekend meeting them fantastic. By the way,
just quickly apropos nothing the northern part of England bidding
for the Olympics. Now there's a scoping study on this
land and sea is the dick Canty. London's the time
of all big events. Is Britain capable in its current
state of genuinely pitching for an Olympic Games in the
(05:08):
northern part of that great land.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
No, I don't think we'd be capable of hosting Eurovision
again here at the moment. Let's be Frank, Let's come on, Mike. No, No,
the Olympic Games in Sheffield or Doncaster. No, look, let's
just let's just try and keep a stable government, get
the bond markets right, get the cost of living down.
Not have the most expensive energy and electricity and gas
(05:31):
in Europe while we have unbelievable resources buried beneath the
North Sea. I could go on, let's just get the
house in order and then we worry about major global events.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Good on you, mate, lovely to catch up with you.
We'll talk so and appreciate it very much. Into Brady
out of Britain for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news Talks.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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