{"id":708845,"date":"2026-07-24T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708845\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:14:13","slug":"chris-mason-what-his-first-week-in-power-tells-us-about-andy-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708845\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Mason: What his first week in power tells us about Andy Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Could Andy Burnham be tempted? When asked, he has said &#8220;we&#8217;re in a parliamentary democracy and, as we&#8217;ve seen through time, if somebody can command a majority of the MPs in the House of Commons, they obviously then have the legitimacy to lead things forward.&#8221; That is a statement of constitutional truth, rather than a definitive answer either way to the question itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could Andy Burnham be tempted? When asked, he has said &#8220;we&#8217;re in a parliamentary democracy and, as we&#8217;ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708845","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\/708845","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=708845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}