an interview Burnham gave in July<\/a>, he said his father\u2019s condition meant he was unaware that his son was about to become prime minister.<\/p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s a sadness because he would be [proud],\u201d Burnham told the Times. \u201cBut the way I look at it, it\u2019s his achievement as well. A whole family achievement, although he doesn\u2019t know it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burnham has talked about wanting to improve social care, in part because of his experiences with his father.<\/p>\n
In one of his first speeches as prime minister, Burnham said it was humbling to see the \u201cskill and the care and the professionalism\u201d of care workers like those looking after his father, and that they should be paid more.<\/p>\n
Among those expressing their condolences was Angela Rayner, the housing secretary, who posted: \u201cMy thoughts are with Andy and his family at this terribly difficult and sad time.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her own post on X, Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, offered her condolences to Burnham and his family, adding: \u201cNo matter how old you are, or how much you try to prepare, losing your father is a profoundly painful experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cA part of your life that has always been there is suddenly gone forever and it can feel as though a part of you won\u2019t ever be the same again.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the start of the Commons session on Monday afternoon, Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, said: \u201cI am sure the whole house will want to send our best wishes to him and his family at this sad time.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Head North, the 2024 book he co-wrote with Steve Rotheram, the Liverpool city region mayor, Burnham described what he said had been a happy upbringing with his father, his mother, Eileen, and his two brothers in Culcheth, near Warrington in Cheshire. Roy worked as a telephone engineer, while Eileen was a GP\u2019s receptionist.<\/p>\n
\u201cNeither my dad, Roy, nor my mum, Eileen, went to university. But both could have done if they had grown up in a different time and in a different place,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir knowledge of that fact seemed to make them all the more determined that their three sons would go. But that did not make them pushy parents in any way.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir approach was one of quiet encouragement and confidence-building. Our family home in Culcheth was always full of music, life, laughter, love and support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham has cancelled his engagements for Monday and Tuesday after his father, Roy, died. Among other plans,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-770600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770600","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=770600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}