{"id":711658,"date":"2026-07-26T07:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711658\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:37:09","slug":"andy-burnham-ill-be-as-much-for-the-east-as-the-north-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711658\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham &#8211; &#8216;I&#8217;ll be as much for the East as the North-West&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c79y78q8jq5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">answered concerns<\/a> quietly expressed by some local politicians and business leaders that the region could lose out on government funding, because a northern MP is now in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking of his time as Manchester mayor, Burnham said: &#8220;It was my job to be a strong voice for Greater Manchester and the wider North, but when I go around the country I see the same as I see in the North-West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are communities here, in places like Harlow, that feel that little bit forgotten, because they&#8217;re on the fringe of a big city and they&#8217;re right to feel like that, because sometimes they don&#8217;t get the investment and the attention that they deserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I&#8217;ll be as much for the East as I will be for the North-West.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had promised good growth in every postcode in the country, adding: &#8220;I&#8217;m here today to show my commitment to communities across the East of England\u2026 I&#8217;ll be a regular visitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prime minister answered concerns quietly expressed by some local politicians and business leaders that the region could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711658","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\/711658","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=711658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}