{"id":48201,"date":"2026-06-22T19:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:58:24","slug":"latest-from-downing-street-as-andy-burnham-edges-closer-to-power-watch-itv-evening-news-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48201\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest from Downing Street as Andy Burnham edges closer to power: Watch ITV Evening News LIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Latest from Downing Street as Andy Burnham edges closer to power: Watch ITV Evening News LIVE\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-xOieNmCJE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLatest from Downing Street as Andy Burnham edges closer to power: Watch ITV Evening News LIVE<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAndy Burnham has been sworn in as the new MP for Makerfield in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>The former mayor of Greater Manchester arrived in London&#8217;s Euston station earlier on Monday and made his way to parliament for the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by Knowsley MP Anneliese Midgley, and Leigh and Atherton\u2019s MP, Jo Platt, Burnham took the oath MPs swear to the crown on a bible.<\/p>\n<p>He had earlier confirmed to journalists he would stand to be the next prime minister in any process that was run following Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer&#8217;s resignation on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the programme:<br \/>\n&#8211; The Met Office has issued a rare Red Warning for extreme heat as temperatures are set to soar close to 40 celsius this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;  The former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, has been found guilty of a string of child sexual offences including rape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Tartan Army meanwhile have moved on to Florida where Scotland face Brazil in their final group match on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nFor more of the biggest news stories in the UK and around the world, visit the ITV News YouTube channel: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Subscribe to ITV News In Full on YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ITVNewsInFull\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at: http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest from Downing Street as Andy Burnham edges closer to power: Watch ITV Evening News LIVE Andy Burnham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[20540,4517,26784,43701,34101,380,379,263,29089,44505,32632,2463,28649,44504,325,30566,44506,25436,24140],"class_list":["post-48201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-andy-burnham","tag-breaking-news-uk","tag-british-politics-2026","tag-burnham-victory","tag-greater-manchester-politics","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour-leadership-race","tag-labour-party-change","tag-labour-party-future","tag-labour-party-uk","tag-makerfield-by-election","tag-prime-minister-challenge","tag-reform-uk","tag-starmer-vs-burnham","tag-uk-breaking-stories","tag-uk-election-news","tag-uk-political-analysis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116795544814621796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48201","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=48201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}