“There’s something very steady and sensible … and deep-rooted her”.
Andoh said Sir Keir was recently described as “political vegetable broth” in a newspaper article.
“The Tories have been sugar laden cakes and jellies and foie gras and caviar and we’ve all got a bit of a sore tummy. We need some bread and butter and some plain soup,” she said.
“And I think there’s something this yearning for steadiness, financially we need it … We just need to be steady.
“We need to have no fireworks, we don’t need any big extreme things. We just need a steadiness.
“And so I think with that partnership of Rachel and Keir, there’ll be something steady.”
After her win, Ms Reeves posted to X saying: “It is an honour and a privilege to be returned as the Member of Parliament for Leeds West and Pudsey.
“You have put your trust in me. And I will not let you down.”
Andoh also offered commentary after Lee Anderson became Reform UK’s first elected MP as leader Nigel Farage hailed the prospect of a “huge” General Election result.
“I think there are who just feel disenfranchised and powerless and they want to find some way to regain some sense of agency over their lives and to lean into a party that says ‘this was ours’,” she said.
“It has got a twinge of the Maga (make America great again) it.
“And that can be frightening, because it’s like, what country was that, that you want back – who was part of that citizenship at that time.”
“Working class men, women, of all races, religions and sexualities fought and died for their right to determine their future – many still are.
