{"id":92665,"date":"2026-08-08T08:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92665"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:04:42","slug":"prisoner-release-row-proving-to-be-burnhams-first-big-test-as-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/08\/prisoner-release-row-proving-to-be-burnhams-first-big-test-as-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner release row proving to be Burnham&#8217;s first big test as PM"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/3840\/cpsprodpb\/8cb4\/live\/a31e2ea0-9271-11f1-be40-e93959facbbc.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Burnham looking thoughtful against backdrop of a field. He is wearing dark rimmed spectacles\" width=\"666\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Three weeks into his premiership, Andy Burnham has \u201chit bumps in the road\u201d in the estimation of one long-serving Labour MP with the row over the early release of some prisoners from jail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdewx3lpd2eo?at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_id=C80851A0-9276-11F1-8776-C13034F044C9&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_format=link&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_origin=BBCNews\">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>Three weeks into his premiership, Andy Burnham has \u201chit bumps in the road\u201d in the estimation of one long-serving Labour MP with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Andy-Burnham1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92665","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=92665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92666,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92665\/revisions\/92666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}