That is the question put to the public this week by us on our X @UK_Dispatch_ in a simple “YOUR SAY” post. It lands at a moment of fresh political turnover: Andy Burnham has only just become Prime Minister, and on 20 July 2026 he appointed former Defence Secretary John Healey as Chancellor in place of Rachel Reeves. Martin Lewis, the founder of MoneySavingExpert and Britain’s most trusted personal-finance voice, is once again being floated as the outsider who could do the jo