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Louise Haigh

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first: 2026-07-09
most recent: 2026-07-09
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“Living through that. It's funny you say eating because I cannot tell you how many times a day I was offered a pie whilst living in Wigan. So myself and Jenny, who used to work for me, shared an Airbnb in Wigan in the center of Wigan and took my dog Milo with me. He became the star of the campaign. He was just sort of weaving his way around the campaign centre every time I turned around another stranger was feeding him a sandwich. But we were based in this utterly sort of surreal campaign centre called the Stubbshaw. It was a formerly Labour Club now a community centre. And it was open to the public the entire time and had a working bar, old day every day. So you can imagine some of the characters that were weaving in and out of the centre. And every single Thursday, every single Thursday, it had an exotic bird auction in the back room. And men, and it was mostly men, would come from all over the northwest with their cages filled with these.”
2026-07-09 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · We've got a plan: Louise Haigh on her journey back to power · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that he's so closely associated, obviously, with Manchester and indeed Liverpool because he's not actually from Liverpool. So there is clearly a need to speak to, as I say, the whole country and demonstrate how his brand of politics and Manchesterism applies. I mean, this morning The Times had written up who was who around Andy. And they described me as part of the Manchester Mafia, which, and the Times have written quite a lot of offensive things about me in their time, that kind of takes the biscuit. You're going to sue a Sheffield sues for being gone.”
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“Yeah, and I know it's driving the lobby, and indeed a lot of my colleagues completely to distraction that the cabinet hasn't been announced or that there's been no briefings around who's going to be doing what jobs. But Andy is in a totally unique position at the moment in that he's not beholden to anybody. Normally when you won a leadership contest or you're on the cusp of winning a leadership contest, you've had to do horse trades and deals with all kinds of people. But he's not had to do that to get to the position he's in. And therefore, he can set out the agenda, including the machinery of government changes, which he started to announce this week with number 10 north, and then build out the people from that. And that's the right way to do it. But it's so, so rare that you get given the opportunity to do it that way.”
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“Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the means and the mechanism for it clearly only came, it only became clear after the local elections that it couldn't continue the way it was continuing.”
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“Yes, I believe so. And of course, he's run for leader twice before, so this is hopefully touchwood third time lucky. So he has been thinking about this and certainly planning for this moment, or at least the last year.”
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“I don't think I am breaking any state secrets to say Andy has been thinking and has had his ambition. His ambitions have been clear for some time.”
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“It certainly does, yeah. It is incredibly daunting. But Andy gives me confidence in those talks and in every conversation I've had that his priorities and a sense, but also his plan for what he wants to do is so clear. There is barely a domestic policy area that he has not had responsibility for because Greater Manchester is such a large devolved area. It's got so many powers and so many responsibilities. So he's had experience in nearly every area. More experience than any normal cabinet minister would have in preparing for a job.”
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“Certainly has. He is the surest politician I've ever come across of what he thinks and what he knows needs to be done. And there's this concept or this narrative that's gripped hold of some in the Westminster lobby that he's unprepared or inexperienced because he's been away from Westminster for the last nine years. That couldn't be further from the truth because he has spent that time thinking very deeply about how the country is run, what holds regions like Greater Manchester and therefore most regions and the devolved nations of this country back and he has got very very clear ideas and a plan to put that right.”
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“I mean, we were elected on a mandate for change and everyone was hopeful when we came in. There was excitement and ambition for a changed country and the government immediately turned around and said that wasn't possible. And as I say, we've just never been able to recover from that. No matter how many resets Armour and the rest of the government attempted, it could never get itself out of that. So that's why where Andy positions himself now and how he connects to the country, because as much as we might think we know and have heard all Andy shtick to death, a lot of the country still doesn't necessarily know about him and they need to learn they've not had the benefit of a general election campaign in which he's been out on the telly every day with his whole team around him. So he's got a big obstacle to overcome to become known to the country as a whole, but it's a huge opportunity as well because he can tell that story of hope and optimism.”
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“100%, and I think when you look back over the last couple of years, the government never really recovered from the mood music and our positioning as soon as we won the general election from winter fuel to the 22 billion black hole and the things can only get worse speech.”
2026-07-09 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · We've got a plan: Louise Haigh on her journey back to power · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I'd say my baseline every day is frazzled, and then we sort of get to varying levels of stress every day, depending on how things pan out. But it's obviously right now wonderful to be here in Sheffield with you. I always appreciate getting out of Westminster. And it's a particular pressure cooker at the moment. Everyone is very excited and very anxious for what's to come, but most of all excited, I think. It is a huge opportunity to turn things around for this Labour government.”
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