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He'll be the first Andy in No 10 - but his rise to power has
been decades in the making
8 days ago
Becky Morton,Political reporterand
Brian Wheeler,Political reporter
Reuters
Andy Burnham now looks set to be the 59th prime minister of the UK after Labour MPs backed him to take over as their party leader.
He will not be the first Andrew to occupy Number 10 - Andrew
Bonar Law got there first in 1922.
But he will be the first Andy.
His political brand is all about being matey and
approachable, and the "vote Andy" slogan has brought him a lot of
success at the ballot box over the years.
He will also be the first self-proclaimed Northerner to be
prime minister since Harold Wilson in the 1960s and 70s.
PMs since then may have had northern English roots, but none
have made it a core part of their appeal in the way that Burnham has.
He even has the nickname King of North, earned after he made
a defiant, open-air speech in 2020 telling the government Greater Manchester
would not accept any more Covid restrictions.
But the 56-year-old began his long political career as the
archetypal Westminster insider - and although he has only been an MP for less
than a month this time, his rise to power has been decades in the making.
He first stood to be Labour leader in 2010 and then again in
2015, when he came a distant second to Jeremy Corbyn.
He might have gone down as a footnote in political history
if he had not taken the gamble, in 2017, to seek election as the first mayor of
the Greater Manchester region.
Regional mayors were an untested concept at the time but
Burnham made the role his own - and used it to build a powerful platform,
untainted by the London-centric Westminster politics he professes to despise.
Early life: Everton fan and indie music lover
Born in Liverpool in 1970, Burnham grew up in Culcheth, a
quiet commuter belt village in Cheshire, near Warrington.
His father, a BT engineer, and his mother, a GP
receptionist, were both staunch Labour supporters and he developed an early
interest in politics.
Burnham has described how he was inspired to join the Labour
Party at the age of 14, after being moved by the BBC TV drama, Boys from the
Blackstuff, about life on the dole in Liverpool.
A lifelong Everton fan, his friends remember Burnham as a
competitive, sports-mad child, who was a fast bowler for Lancashire schoolboys
cricket team.
At school, the local Roman Catholic comprehensive, his
English teacher recalls how he stood to be a Labour candidate in mock elections
- and won by a landslide.
Burnham and his two brothers were the first in their family
to go to university, with Andy studying English at Cambridge.
In his book, Head North, Burnham wrote that he
"struggled to feel part of things" at university and felt like an
"imposter".
However, the music-lover - who is a fan of Manchester indie
bands like The Smiths and The Stone Roses - said his "growing interest in
Manchester music gave me an identity and an advantage".
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Burnham appeared alongside Sir Keir Starmer during a visit
by the PM to Ashton-under-Lyne in April
From MP to Greater Manchester mayor
After graduating, he started out in journalism, working for
trade magazines including Tank World and Passenger World Management.
In his early 20s, he got his first break in politics,
working as a researcher for the late Tessa Jowell, then MP for Dulwich and West
Norwood, who would go on to be a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Burnham rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a special
adviser to Culture Secretary Chris Smith before being elected as the MP for his
hometown of Leigh, in Greater Manchester, in 2001.
He first served as a junior minister under Blair, but joined
the cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury, and later culture secretary and
health secretary, under Brown.
It was as secretary of state for culture, media and sport
that Burnham was heckled at a memorial service marking the 20th anniversary of
the Hillsborough disaster.
Ninety-seven Liverpool fans were killed in the stadium crush
of 1989.
The heckling spurred Burnham on to raise the issue in
cabinet, contributing to the launch of a second inquiry into the disaster.
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A keen footballer, Burnham was a regular feature in the
annual Labour MPs vs political journalists match
In 2010, after Brown resigned following Labour's general
election defeat, Burnham ran to become the party's leader.
He came fourth out of the five contenders, losing to Ed
Miliband, but spent the next five years building up his appeal with the party's
grassroots.
In 2015 he tried again, beaten this time by Jeremy Corbyn.
Burnham's critics have branded him a weather vane, whose
views have blown with the political winds to give him the best chance of
success.
He served in Corbyn's shadow cabinet, as shadow home
secretary, despite being seen as on the Blairite centre-right of the party.
Burnham's views have moved increasingly to the left, backing
the nationalisation of water and energy.
He was not one of those who resigned in protest at Corbyn's
leadership in 2016.
Instead he stood down in 2017 to run to be the first mayor
of Greater Manchester.
Burnham won the contest with more than 60% of the vote and
was re-elected by an even bigger margin in 2021
'Bee Network' and lockdown stand-off
As mayor, he has drawn praise for his transformation of the
region's transport system.
Under his leadership, Greater Manchester was the first area
in England outside London to bring bus services back under public control,
while integrating them with other modes of transport under the branding of the
"Bee Network".
Other bold pledges included ending rough sleeping in the
region by 2020 - although the target was missed.
His profile rose further during the Covid pandemic, when he
accused the Conservative government of treating the north of England with
"contempt" over regional lockdown restrictions.
The stand-off helped earn him the nickname "King of the
North".
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Burnham has hailed the "Bee Network" as one of his
successes as mayor
By the autumn party conference season of 2025, Burnham was
openly on manoeuvres for the top job, as he refused to rule out a leadership
bid.
His interventions appeared to backfire, after he provoked a
backlash by suggesting the government was "in hock" to the bond
markets - a reference to the government's self-imposed rules limiting spending
and borrowing.
In January a potential opportunity for a return to
Westminster arose when Greater Manchester MP Andrew Gwynne announced he was
standing down, triggering a by-election in his Gorton and Denton constituency.
However, Burnham was blocked from standing by Labour's
ruling body, with the approval of the prime minister.
By May, the situation had changed. Labour suffered a poor
set of election results in England, Scotland and Wales, with Reform riding high
in the polls and the party seeing success in Burnham's backyard.
Sir Keir Starmer faced increased pressure over his future,
with some MPs calling for change and ministerial resignations taking place.
Josh Simons announced he would step down as Labour MP for
Makerfield to make way for Burnham to mount a bid to return to Parliament.
Burnham went on to be selected as the Labour candidate for
the constituency and the following month he secured his return to Westminster./-