{"id":64553,"date":"2026-07-21T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/64553\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:00:33","slug":"burnhams-new-cabinet-friends-prioritised-and-a-big-surprise-sam-coates-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/64553\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham&#8217;s new cabinet: Friends prioritised &#8211; and a big surprise | Sam Coates analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Burnham&#039;s new cabinet: Friends prioritised - and a big surprise | Sam Coates analysis\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rjvWkJIxuic\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBurnham&#8217;s new cabinet: Friends prioritised &#8211; and a big surprise | Sam Coates analysis<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAndy Burnham has set the direction of government with some surprises among his top team &#8211; only keeping seven of the 27 members of Sir Keir Starmer&#8217;s cabinet. <\/p>\n<p>But has he risked things by putting many of his friends and closest allies into cabinet?<\/p>\n<p>Live updates: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/politics-latest-andy-burnham-keir-starmer-labour-12593360<\/p>\n<p>#skynews #uk #politics <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: 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>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/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":"Burnham&#8217;s new cabinet: Friends prioritised &#8211; and a big surprise | Sam Coates analysis Andy Burnham has set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[20540,22067,3840,2177,415,14870,296,279],"class_list":["post-64553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-andy-burnham","tag-cabinet","tag-downing-street","tag-government","tag-prime-minister","tag-sam-coates","tag-sky-news","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64553","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=64553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}