Northern Spin

Northern Spin

Hosted by Chris Maguire and Frank McKenna · Chris Maguire & Frank McKenna

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65
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6
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50
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Cadence
2022
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About Northern Spin

Chris Maguire and Frank McKenna are Northern-based political commentators and co-hosts of the Northern Spin podcast. Maguire is an award-winning journalist and Executive Editor of BusinessCloud, while McKenna is Chief Executive and Group Chairman of Downtown in Business. Launched in 2022, Northern Spin was created to give the North a stronger voice - cutting through Westminster noise with sharp analysis of politics, business and media from a distinctly Northern perspective. Now, as Andy Burnham becomes the first Northern-born Prime Minister since Harold Wilson in 1976, Northern Spin returns to separate fact from spin and bring listeners authoritative insight from the North.

Publisher
Chris Maguire & Frank McKenna
Category
government
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
13 Sept 2022
Latest episode
28 Sept 2026
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6 of 65 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Can Andy Burnham turn good vibes into hard choices?

  2. 21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Andy Burnham: Great communicator or TikTok PM?

  3. 20 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Northern Spin – Season 6 – Episode 4: Burnham promises hope, but can he deliver change?

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Can Andy Burnham turn good vibes into hard choices?

Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But I think that's the sort of thing we need to hear now, because it's not going to get easier a year from now. It's absolutely not. I have spent the last few days rereading Labour's 2024 General Election Manifesto pledge, which is the reason I look so tired for. And they said that they would not increase taxes on working people, which is a bit of a fudge. OK, so they're not going to increase national insurance. They're not going to increase the basic or higher rates of income tax or VAT. We saw what happened when when they did that with national insurance and Rachel Reed never really recovered from it. […]

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