{"id":699901,"date":"2026-07-19T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699901\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:11:23","slug":"cooperation-matters-between-uk-and-scottish-government-ahead-of-new-pm-baillie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699901\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperation matters between UK and Scottish Government ahead of new PM \u2013 Baillie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former Greater Manchester mayor, who returned to Westminster last month as the MP for Makerfield, was confirmed Labour leader on Friday before he enters No 10 as the prime minister on Monday.<\/p>\n

In his pitch for the Labour leadership, Mr Burnham focused on devolution and said he wanted to decentralise Westminster, including an extension of the prime minister\u2019s office in Manchester dubbed \u201cNo 10 North\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"LabourAndy Burnham after officially being confirmed the new leader of the Labour Party (Yui Mok\/PA)<\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Sunday Show, Dame Jackie Baillie said Mr Burnham would need to consider all of what should be devolved in Scotland \u201cin the round\u201d.<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cWhat matters to me is that there\u2019s cooperation between the UK Government and the Scottish Government, and that we always act in the interests of Scottish people.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, for example do I want to see energy bills reduced? Of course I do. I\u2019d like to see that across the whole of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like action, and I\u2019ve believed in action on standing charges, there are things that both governments can work together to do without us getting drawn into a huge long discussion about you know which power should be devolved and which shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just get on with the job of delivering for the people of Scotland, and that\u2019s something I know Andy Burnham working with (Scottish Labour leader) Anas Sarwar will absolutely do.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the Holyrood elections in May, Scottish Labour lost five seats bringing the party\u2019s total down to 17 alongside new party Reform Scotland.<\/p>\n

Prior to the elections Mr Sarwar called for Sir Keir Starmer to resign as he said \u201cthe distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said he believed a series of \u201cmistakes\u201d were undermining Labour\u2019s prospects in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n

Dame Jackie confirmed that during the election voters were \u201craising their concerns\u201d about Sir Keir and the UK Labour party.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI think people are disappointed. I think we all are disappointed.<\/p>\n

\"ArbroathScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has earlier called for Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s resignation (Jane Barlow\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, you don\u2019t work your entire political life for something and then celebrate when you\u2019ve lost. Of course not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a period for serious reflection, that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking to members and activists, elected members, we are looking at what we could have done differently, what we could have done better, and to learn lessons for the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut but let me say to you, the political context was hugely damaging to our election prospects on every door, if not every second door that I was on, people were raising their concerns about Keir Starmer and the UK Labour Government, and that is of course extremely disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Greater Manchester mayor, who returned to Westminster last month as the MP for Makerfield, was confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}