{"id":556314,"date":"2026-07-18T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556314\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:03:10","slug":"ruthless-plotter-or-dad-dancer-insiders-reveal-the-real-andy-burnham-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556314\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruthless plotter or dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5rV0s4OGFkemhTWFd2VDNqT3BCWE5XVkQ4ZzhCS3RpWnp3Y24xMzl0WEtzQzFfY1dTZldzNnF4RVM4U0MzVHRmRG5fZlFwSDVQby1ZZFYtbWxKdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ruthless plotter or dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifEFVX3lxTE5ObnpLVWpUUTZmLTM0d3B0aEJwR3EtQTQ3S3R6VHFLdkNOS3RSZkVYZGowR0J5RHlLRXVzWFpUVF9XLWNtRGg3dlJtbzRicUVFUFlUa0pzbmtEQXdrRDZkck5VTDFOaXAwcmo3LXpnUFNPZmUwUkJkcEhXMDA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andy Burnham says he is &#8216;ready to lead&#8217; as he takes over Labour party<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE5kbWZVZnR5LXF0b2dBNGFVUnVTUk91TGs0LUQzajZoUWktcWhjUFM1YTFidTMzejVVblVKSXpkWnI2UmRmWUY2bFFBNllGSWJlTkZxdkhSNlNFSE9mU2FsUGpsUHgza1ZVVk1xTlJVa1d6V2tNMzRwOFBVLWxaRHc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Britain hopes this man will save its economy. We went to Manchester to find out why<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CNN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxNRUFYTWNtNld6TXRFVGs3M0RUVjFpT24yN240ZnA2UGdTVUZkRGpvLUVHVl9VWENXaldlMGxDRzlFUzZMeDBLWklFOTNjMFYzekhnTlNicG5qS01OelA4c0xrQ0t3LWV1ZWFRaTBlN3ZCM284TV9nNm5hUDlPQWFjcklYSi1aMVVDS3poUEx6eE1ZbHg2LUN1aW9PbkxhV0IySmUyWWI1RQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Welcome to Burnham\u2019s world: a farrago of nonsense, revisionism and economic illiteracy<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE56a2hvcW13Mmx1d3I0QXFKOWN6NlZyRmpVQ05qdlBzc04yeFN3djFxWk5wcjNDS0cteVMwT2FQaXJZNEk5NlNTUW5BN01nOW9MSE1YZUpSMk5hXzNwTGhzTXJCSl9yckJzMGtUMFFfaU56aWdPT1l3aWlDQ3ZacFE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">D\u00e1il\u2019s out, Andy Burnham\u2019s in<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruthless plotter or dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCAndy Burnham says he is &#8216;ready to lead&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-556314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556314","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=556314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}