{"id":154315,"date":"2025-11-22T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154315\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:34:08","slug":"andy-burnham-reacts-to-haggard-sculpture-of-his-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154315\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham reacts to ‘haggard’ sculpture of his head"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 Nov 2025, 14:45 Updated: 5h ago <\/p>\n

The sculpture was created by artist, Anthony D Padgett, to celebrate and shine a light on northern leaders<\/p>\n

22 Nov 2025, 14:45 | Updated: 5h ago <\/p>\n

\"Andy<\/p>\n

Andy Burnham has reacted to a sculpture created by northern artist Anthony D Padgett.<\/p>\n

Picture:
\nAlamy \/ Global<\/p>\n

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By Chris Chambers and Jessie George<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to tell whether Andy Burnham was genuinely delighted with this 18kg bronze sculpture of his head, or whether he was just being polite, but he said all the right things as he unveiled it at Manchester Central.<\/p>\n

The sculpture was created by northern artist, Anthony D Padgett, to celebrate and shine a light on northern leaders. It took 40 hours to make and has been on display at the Manchester Art Fair.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never quite had this experience before,” Mayor Burnham told LBC.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, it looks like me. I think it’s a really incredible moment, really a strange moment to see yourself like that, and these glasses, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to get rid of them now they’re immortalised.”<\/p>\n

Read more: Labour MP offers to give up seat for Burnham in bid to replace Starmer as he calls on PM to quit<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more: Andy Burnham urges Labour to end \u2018culture of fear\u2019 in party and tells Starmer to ‘go further’<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mayor<\/p>\n

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has been tipped to replace Starmer.<\/p>\n

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Mr Burnham, who has again been linked with a potential move to succeed the Prime Minister, chuckled as he unveiled the sculpture in his home city.<\/p>\n

“I probably do look like that on a Monday morning\u201d, he said. “Yeah, a little haggard on a morning, but yeah, it’s an incredible thing and I just want to thank Anthony.<\/p>\n

“When Anthony came to me and suggested it\u2026 you don’t know quite how to react when someone says that. But it was a wonderful thing you did.\u00a0I really, really appreciate it to have an amazing northern artist like this do this for me. Well, I’m truly honoured. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"22 Nov 2025, 14:45 Updated: 5h ago The sculpture was created by artist, Anthony D Padgett, to celebrate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-154315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}