{"id":84036,"date":"2026-01-26T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84036"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:30:30","slug":"chris-mason-burnham-saga-unlikely-to-be-last-act-in-drama-of-starmers-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/26\/chris-mason-burnham-saga-unlikely-to-be-last-act-in-drama-of-starmers-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Mason: Burnham saga unlikely to be last act in drama of Starmer&#8217;s leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th?id=OVFT.1bQPzpCfTQVSLNsb6zsKTC&amp;pid=News&amp;w=316&amp;h=200&amp;c=14&amp;rs=2&amp;qlt=90&amp;dpr=1.5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The other day I\u00a0<\/b><a class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg553rk7zvo\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">compared the saga of Andy Burnham, his ambitions and the forthcoming by-election<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> in Greater Manchester to a long and twisting marble run.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpwnjdnz2n5o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; The other day I\u00a0compared the saga of Andy Burnham, his ambitions and the forthcoming by-election in Greater Manchester to a long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Andy-Burnham.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84038,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84036\/revisions\/84038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}