{"id":62809,"date":"2026-07-17T20:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/62809\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:06:59","slug":"its-third-time-lucky-for-andy-burnham-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/62809\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s third time lucky for Andy Burnham. This Is Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"It&#039;s third time lucky for Andy Burnham. This Is Why.\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nq7njjfyGFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s third time lucky for Andy Burnham. This Is Why.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCabinet minister, #Manchester mayor, \u2018King of the North\u2019 &#8211; #andyburnham has held plenty of positions during his political career. But the next will be by far the most significant.<\/p>\n<p>The Makerfield MP is poised to take over as #primeminister on Monday, after finally succeeding at his third attempt to become #Labour leader.<\/p>\n<p>But who is the man behind the former Blair-era minister turned mayor of Manchester? How did his upbringing shape him and what underpins his politics?<\/p>\n<p>Niall is joined by chief political correspondent of The Times, Aubrey Allegretti.<\/p>\n<p>Have you got something you want the team to look into? Email the show \u2013 why@sky.uk<\/p>\n<p>#politics #ukpolitics #labour #keirstarmer   <\/p>\n<p>Follow This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy<br \/>\nFollow Niall on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynewsniall<br \/>\nFollow Niall on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynewsniall<\/p>\n<p>Find out how to subscribe to our members club, Sky News Insider: https:\/\/skynews.supportingcast.fm\/<\/p>\n<p>Sky News Insider requires a paid subscription and is available to UK listeners aged 18 and over.<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s third time lucky for Andy Burnham. This Is Why. Cabinet minister, #Manchester mayor, \u2018King of the North\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[14,38,8604,1426,296,27,1302,279,412,49],"class_list":["post-62809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-michael-clarke","tag-podcast","tag-sky-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-this-is-why","tag-uk","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116937173406598013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62809","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=62809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}