{"id":1172575,"date":"2026-08-27T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1172575\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:45:20","slug":"prime-minister-andy-burnham-pledges-economic-co-operation-on-first-official-wales-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1172575\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledges economic co-operation on first official Wales visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"advert has-text-align-left has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\"><strong>Support quality, independent, local journalism\u2026that matters<br \/><\/strong><br \/>From just <strong>\u00a31 a month<\/strong> you can help fund our work \u2013 and use our website without adverts. <a href=\"https:\/\/membership.caerphilly.observer\/join?mtm_campaign=member_appeal&amp;mtm_source=website&amp;mtm_placement=article_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Become a member today<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Andy-Burnham-UK-Parliament.webp\" alt=\"Prime Minister Andy Burnham\" class=\"wp-image-1061042\"  \/>Prime Minister Andy Burnham<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Andy Burnham visited south Wales today to meet workers and apprentices to discuss jobs, reindustrialisation, and cost-of-living pressures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visit is Mr Burnham\u2019s first official trip to Wales since taking office last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the visit to Port Talbot, Mr Burnham confirmed he will meet First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth this autumn as part of an economic summit with the leaders of the devolved governments in Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leaders will gather in October, alongside the Prime Minister, under the revived National Economic Council \u2013 a panel originally created during the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking during his visit on Thursday August 27, Mr Burnham said: \u201cThe answers to the UK\u2019s challenges will not come from an echo chamber. They will come from the places that know their own strengths, and from a government willing to listen and then act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGood jobs in every community, in every part of the UK. That is what I want every leader in this country signed up to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen Kinnock, the secretary of state for Wales, welcomed Mr Burnham to the area and said: \u201cThe PM\u2019s ambition to reindustrialise Wales and secure good growth and jobs in every postcode reflects Wales\u2019s proud history and bright future as the backbone of British industry \u2013 from defence, to sustainable energy and advanced manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"advert has-text-align-left has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\"><strong>Support quality, independent, local journalism\u2026that matters<br \/><\/strong><br \/>From just <strong>\u00a31 a month<\/strong> you can help fund our work \u2013 and use our website without adverts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/membership.caerphilly.observer\/join?mtm_campaign=member_appeal&amp;mtm_source=website&amp;mtm_placement=article_bottom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Become a member today<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK Parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support quality, independent, local journalism\u2026that mattersFrom just \u00a31 a month you can help fund our work \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1172576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5010],"tags":[8916,748,76965,1700,4884,252190,16,10788,15,1764,14794],"class_list":["post-1172575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wales","tag-andy-burnham","tag-britain","tag-devolution","tag-economy","tag-great-britain","tag-rhun-ap-iorwerth","tag-uk","tag-uk-government","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","tag-welsh-government"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117168488406516159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}