{"id":93576,"date":"2026-06-30T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/%ce%b8%ce%ad%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5-%ce%bd%ce%b1-%ce%bc%ce%ac%ce%b8%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5-%cf%84%ce%b9-%ce%b8%ce%b1-%ce%ad%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b5-%ce%bf-andy-burnham-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bd-%ce%ba\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:00:39","slug":"%ce%b8%ce%ad%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5-%ce%bd%ce%b1-%ce%bc%ce%ac%ce%b8%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5-%cf%84%ce%b9-%ce%b8%ce%b1-%ce%ad%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b5-%ce%bf-andy-burnham-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bd-%ce%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/%ce%b8%ce%ad%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5-%ce%bd%ce%b1-%ce%bc%ce%ac%ce%b8%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5-%cf%84%ce%b9-%ce%b8%ce%b1-%ce%ad%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b5-%ce%bf-andy-burnham-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bd-%ce%ba\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0398\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03bc\u03ac\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b9 \u03b8\u03b1 \u03ad\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5 \u03bf Andy Burnham \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03ad\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7; \u03a1\u03af\u03be\u03c4\u03b5 \u03bc\u03b9\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ac \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03bb\u03b8\u03cc\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u200b\u200bRead More<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u200bOne week on from Keir Starmer\u2019s resignation, Britain finds itself in a state of both certainty and ambiguity. It is almost guaranteed that Andy Burnham will be prime minister by the end of the summer, bar sudden scandal or meteorite. And yet, whether Burnham gets his expected coronation or not, the infancy of his return to Westminster coupled with the speed of Starmer\u2019s exit timetable has created a remarkable situation: a figure who was not even an MP until a fortnight ago could soon enter Downing Street without anyone knowing what policies he will implement, other than the obligatory buzzword of \u201cchange\u201d.We are watching a political project being conceived in real time, where the nation\u2019s major unions are fighting about who Burnham\u2019s chancellor \u2013 and therefore what his economic programme \u2013 should be before he has actually been appointed prime minister.This isn\u2019t to say that Burnham\u2019s plans will not become clearer. On Monday, he gave the first of what will reportedly be a series of speeches setting out his priorities, beginning with devolution and his pledge to set up a \u201cNo 10 North\u201d in Manchester with the purpose of shifting power and growth to \u201cevery postcode\u201d.But it is a sign of the scale of the political and social turmoil of the past decade, and deep-seated displeasure with Starmer, that it seems quite normal \u2013 rational, even \u2013 to take a punt on someone to run the country who hasn\u2019t even had to pitch for the job, all on a vague feeling that he will be a bit better than the last guy.The Burnham wave is effectively an act of collective projection. Various groups are putting their \u2013 often competing \u2013 hopes on to the former Greater Manchester mayor, on the possibility he might just deliver them.To know what a Burnham premiership could really look like, it\u2019s worth spending less time imagining the future and more digging through his past. With a 16-year career in Westminster before his mayorship, Burnham\u2019s former ministerial briefs and voting records cover almost every major issue he will now face as PM.Take welfare reform. Back in 2015, when George Osborne was ushering in sweeping austerity reforms, Burnham followed the then-interim Labour boss Harriet Harman\u2019s order to abstain on the welfare reform bill. At the time, Burnham said the legislation was \u201cunsupportable\u201d, but that as a cabinet member he didn\u2019t rebel because \u2013 and you can practically hear the manifesting here \u2013 he would expect collective responsibility from his MPs if he was leader.Fast forward a decade and Burnham inherits fresh pressure from the rightwing media to curb \u201cthe bloated welfare bill\u201d and a cohort of Labour backbenchers who successfully rebelled against Starmer\u2019s bid to slash personal independence payments last summer. What might the new leadership do? During the Makerfield campaign, Burnham commented he was \u201cnot squeamish\u201d about reducing benefit spending, but that instead of implementing \u201ccrude cuts\u201d he fa\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u200b\u200bRead More\u00a0\u00a0\u200bOne week on from Keir Starmer\u2019s resignation, Britain finds itself in a state of both certainty and ambiguity. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aftoforo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}