{"id":701741,"date":"2026-07-20T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:18:13","slug":"andy-burnham-succeeds-keir-starmer-as-u-k-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701741\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham Succeeds Keir Starmer as U.K. Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Burnham takes over as the United Kingdom\u2019s next prime minister, succeeding Keir Starmer. Burnham is Britain\u2019s seventh prime minister in a decade. Burnham is the former mayor of Manchester and is considered to be more left-leaning than Starmer. Starmer was forced to step down from office after members of his Labour Party called on him to resign after the party\u2019s huge losses in Britain\u2019s local elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham takes over as the United Kingdom\u2019s next prime minister, succeeding Keir Starmer. Burnham is Britain\u2019s seventh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701741","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\/701741","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=701741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}