{"id":12180,"date":"2026-06-22T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12180"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:36:00","slug":"united-kingdom-andy-burnham-is-a-candidate-for-the-labour-party-leadership-following-starmers-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12180","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom: Andy Burnham is a candidate for the Labour Party leadership following Starmer&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Andy Burnham, <\/b>announced that he will be a candidate in the succession of <b>Keir Starmer <\/b> for the leadership of the Labour Party in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Bernham <b>paid tribute<\/b> to the outgoing leader of party, noting that <b>Starmer <\/b>has rendered significant <b>services <\/b>to the country and led the party through a particularly challenging period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKir has contributed a great deal to our country, and I want to <b>thank him <\/b>for his leadership, commitment, and dedication during an extremely difficult time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that<b> Starmer\u2019s decision<\/b> marks the beginning of a<b> transitional period <\/b>for the party, stressing the need for the succession process to be conducted in an orderly, responsible, and institutional manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will <b>run for the leadership <\/b>as part of this process,\u201d he said, officially confirming his intention to seek the leadership of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Burnham announced that he will be a candidate in the process to succeed Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}