{"id":85272,"date":"2026-07-18T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/85272\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:20:10","slug":"andy-burnham-becomes-labour-leader-unopposed-before-britains-prime-minister-handover-43-sources-western-mainstream-30-newscord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/85272\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham Becomes Labour Leader Unopposed Before Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Handover: 43 Sources (Western Mainstream: 30) | NewsCord"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burnham\u2019s first days<\/p>\n

Andy Burnham is set to become Britain\u2019s 59th prime minister when he walks into No. 10, with the Cabinet Secretary, Antonia Romeo, offering good wishes on Monday.<\/p>\n

Before that, on Friday, Burnham will accept the leadership of the Labour party, unopposed, at the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress, as his acceptance speech is still being worked on and aides say he is \u201cholding the pen himself\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The Spectator says Burnham will acknowledge Labour has been abandoned by many traditional supporters and will repeat what he told his team: \u201cPeople didn\u2019t move away from the party. The party left them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BBC frames the handover as rushed, saying access talks have continued as Burnham and his team talk to the civil service about plans for government and early events \u201cnext week and beyond,\u201d with the aim to \u201chit the ground running\u201d in a blitz of appearances and announcements.<\/p>\n

The BBC also reports Burnham said, as he became Labour leader, \u201cI haven’t made any decisions yet about who will be in that top team,\u201d and later said he was \u201cfinalising those decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

North Sea drilling fight<\/p>\n

City AM says Burnham\u2019s team is set to announce new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea within days of taking office, including plans to approve drilling projects at the Jackdaw gas field and Rosebank oil field off the coast of Scotland and an expansion of \u201ctie-backs\u201d.<\/p>\n

The outlet adds that Jackdaw and Rosebank projects remain in limbo after previous approvals were overturned by the court, and that public consultations were launched on both on Thursday, meaning Burnham\u2019s government may not be able to formally approve the projects before consultations run their course.<\/p>\n

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City AM quotes Adura chief executive Neil McCulloch saying approving both sites would \u201cunlock significant benefits\u201d for the UK including boosting energy security for the winter months.<\/p>\n

The Guardian reports that Greens are using Burnham\u2019s stance on fossil fuels to argue he is weak on climate action, pointing to comments in which he said he had \u201csomething of an open mind\u201d on further drilling for fossil fuels in the North Sea.<\/p>\n

The Guardian also quotes Green leader Zack Polanski saying the UK was \u201cat breaking point\u201d due to high rents and water bills, the impact of extreme heat, and anger over Gaza. <\/p>\n

Greens challenge and stakes<\/p>\n

The Guardian says the Greens launched a pushback against Burnham, with Zack Polanski arguing Burnham is \u201ctoo in hock to vested interests\u201d to offer real change as the party plans a media blitz before Burnham replaces Starmer in Downing Street on Monday.<\/p>\n

Polanski\u2019s social media post on Thursday, as quoted by the Guardian, targets Burnham\u2019s reported decision to install Shabana Mahmood rather than Ed Miliband as chancellor, saying it showed he was \u201csubservient to the City of London\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Guardian says the Greens\u2019 plan to highlight weaknesses for Burnham focuses on policy areas where they portray \u201csemi-skimmed Andy\u201d as offering only verbal support, including rent controls, wealth taxes, nationalisation of the water industry, and a proportional voting system.<\/p>\n

In the same Guardian account, Polanski links the stakes to Gaza and climate, saying \u201cThe status quo is intolerable \u2013 and all the signs so far indicate that Andy Burnham will fail to challenge it,\u201d and calling for \u201cend oil and gas drilling in the North Sea for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

BBC coverage adds that Burnham is receiving national security briefings as the handover steps up, while the BBC notes the Institute for Government figure that there are 149 ministerial posts held by 122 people, underscoring the scale of the choices ahead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnham\u2019s first days Andy Burnham is set to become Britain\u2019s 59th prime minister when he walks into No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[37348,13,33950,8196,33949,33948],"class_list":["post-85272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-andy-burnham-becomes-labour-leader","tag-britain","tag-media-analysis","tag-media-bias","tag-news-compared","tag-news-comparison"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116938357624876528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}