{"id":177226,"date":"2026-08-04T05:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/177226\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T05:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:03:45","slug":"andy-burnhams-6-most-shameless-manchester-plugs-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/177226\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham\u2019s 6 most shameless Manchester plugs \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2285819119-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8839684\"  \/>Burnham dances after being announced as the new leader of the Labour Party in London on July 17, 2026. | Carl Court\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He dad-danced to New Order\u2019s \u201cTrue Faith\u201d on becoming Labour leader, and used a TikTok blind ranking of five bands which included \u2026 four from Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, his official Spotify playlist during the Makerfield by-election was <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/3S9AkNzSw39k6Bp0X7K7Ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flooded with songs<\/a> by Mancunian artists. <\/p>\n<p>5) \u2018Manchester of India.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Improving diplomatic ties cuts both ways as world leaders try to get in Burnham\u2019s good books by referencing his favorite city. <\/p>\n<p>During a call with Indian PM Narendra Modi, Burnham praised the contributions of Indian communities to the U.K., while Modi noted the links between the two leaders\u2019 home cities\u00a0of\u00a0Manchester\u00a0and Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, respectively. The Indian leader called it the \u201cManchester\u00a0of\u00a0India.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>No. 10 put it in their readout of the call \u2014 obvs.<\/p>\n<p>6) Chatting Manchester slang<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@andy.burnham\/video\/7668761896568409347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Burnham\u2019s TikTok game<\/a> includes educating the entire U.K. on the finer points of Greater Manchester dialect.<\/p>\n<p>In a weekend post promoting his devolution agenda, the prime minister declared he couldn\u2019t be convinced a bread roll is called anything but a  \u201cbarm\u201d \u2014\u00a0the north-west slang for a bap.<\/p>\n<p>Burnham was trying to make the point that what works in one place doesn\u2019t succeed in another \u2014 with the help of the Mancunian metaphor. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnham dances after being announced as the new leader of the Labour Party in London on July 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73961],"tags":[28914,10413,1426,15622,3316,12,1846,2041,264,5964,1477,10025,1436,17,14448],"class_list":["post-177226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-andy-burnham","tag-andy-burnham","tag-british-politics","tag-buildings","tag-buses","tag-culture","tag-donald-trump","tag-education","tag-growth","tag-keir-starmer","tag-mayors","tag-music","tag-oman","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-westminster-bubble"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117035493372193342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}