{"id":768865,"date":"2026-09-13T01:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768865\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:24:16","slug":"carney-to-meet-uk-prime-minister-andy-burnham-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768865\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney to meet UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with members of the media as he arrives at the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Justin Tang<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 12, 2026 | 1:41 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet his counterpart in the United Kingdom for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Office says Carney will meet Andy Burnham in Liverpool during a three-day trip to Europe set to start on Tuesday, and the two leaders will discuss Canada-U.K. relations on defence and security, energy, artificial intelligence and critical minerals.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian leader congratulated Burnham after the U.K. prime minister took office on July 20, Carney\u2019s office said at the time, but this will be the first time the two world leaders meet in person.<\/p>\n<p>Burnham is the United Kingdom\u2019s fourth prime minister in four years after a revolving door in the country\u2019s top office has seen former Conservative leaders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, and former Labour leader Keir Starmer, struggle to hold onto the job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with members of the media as he arrives at the Office of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768865","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\/768865","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=768865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}