{"id":64217,"date":"2026-07-21T06:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/64217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:55:55","slug":"burnham-day-2-after-the-purge-the-splurge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/64217\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham Day 2: After the purge, the splurge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Burnham Day 2: After the purge, the splurge\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPB8AMYNWSg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBurnham Day 2: After the purge, the splurge<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Andy Burnham era is underway, and the new prime minister is kicking off with a bang \u2013 cutting VAT on electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p>He promised the country some \u201cbreathing space\u201d on the cost of living, but with prices still rising will anyone actually feel better off? And is it properly funded?<\/p>\n<p>Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine what the announcement shows about Burnham\u2019s direction of travel in government, as his new cabinet gathers for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the duo unpack the biggest cabinet appointments \u2013 from John Healey as chancellor to Wes Streeting at Defence \u2013 after many Starmer loyalists were shown the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnham Day 2: After the purge, the splurge The Andy Burnham era is underway, and the new prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[28545,54388,38640,54389,30540,24432,264,54390,31,8259,247,9513,54387,1520,296],"class_list":["post-64217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-andy","tag-ane","tag-anne","tag-annes","tag-at","tag-burnham","tag-labour","tag-minsiter","tag-news","tag-party","tag-politics","tag-prime","tag-sam","tag-sky","tag-sky-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116956826328806873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217","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=64217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}