{"id":27447,"date":"2026-05-15T22:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/27447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:18:55","slug":"the-major-risks-facing-andy-burnham-as-he-plans-return-to-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/27447\/","title":{"rendered":"The major risks facing Andy Burnham as he plans return to Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The major risks facing Andy Burnham as he plans return to Westminster\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wBwbI2oCVBI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe major risks facing Andy Burnham as he plans return to Westminster<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAndy Burnham will be among the potential Labour candidates to stand in the Makerfield by-election, the party\u2019s ruling body has said, paving the way for his return to the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>The Greater Manchester Mayor has received permission from Labour\u2019s National Executive Committee to contest the by-election after the current MP, Josh Simons, announced on Thursday he would quit Parliament to make way for Mr Burnham.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, Burnham is widely expected to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the party leadership.<\/p>\n<p>A Labour Party spokesperson said: \u201cLabour\u2019s ruling body, the National Executive Committee, has today given permission to Andy Burnham to stand in the candidate selection process in the forthcoming by-election for the Makerfield constituency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The major risks facing Andy Burnham as he plans return to Westminster Andy Burnham will be among the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[20540,26486,380,379,28348,264,28649,700,4751],"class_list":{"0":"post-27447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-itv-news","8":"tag-andy-burnham","9":"tag-greater-manchester-mayor","10":"tag-itv","11":"tag-itv-news","12":"tag-josh-simons","13":"tag-labour","14":"tag-makerfield-by-election","15":"tag-sir-keir-starmer","16":"tag-westminster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116580966913693088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}