Andy Burnham

Exclusive: Burnham gave government job to MP who accused Israel of ‘deliberately exterminating’ Gazans

Steve Witherden, who acts as parliamentary private secretary to the new energy secretary, is associated with Labour’s far-left Socialist Campaign Group faction

By Gabrielle Apfel

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August 7, 2026 14:12

Labour MPs (from CL) Kim Johnson, Neil Duncan-Jordan and Steve Witherden on Westminster Bridge during a pro-Palestine protest on June 4, 2025 (Getty Images)

Votes for 16-year-olds could boost anti-Israel candidates, Burnham warned

A study by the Muslim Council of Britain suggested the number of pro-Gaza independent MPs could increase significantly in 2029

By Gabrielle Apfel

1 min read

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August 5, 2026 14:15

Prime Minister Andy Burnham during a visit to HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Dover on August 2, 2026 (Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

Jewish Care and how to create a decent society

Burnham came to Golders Green to explain how to mend a broken system, in a place that embodies something government cannot easily decree: people taking responsibility for one another. Our community can take quiet pride in the example it sets

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August 5, 2026 09:19

Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks to care home residents Dorothea and Doreen during his visit to Jewish Care, July 29, 2026 (Image: Getty Images)

By Andy Burnham

Why as Prime Minister I’m using Jewish Care as a model for my social care reforms

Labour’s new leader writes for the JC about why he chose the charity’s Golders Green care home as the place to launch his new policy agenda

3 min read

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July 29, 2026 17:35

Andy Burnham shares a laugh with Doreen, a resident at Jewish Care, on a visit to the care home and community centre in Golders Green on July 29, 2026. (Getty Images)

Jewish Care is the ‘gold standard,’ says Andy Burnham at launch of major social care plans

The PM met residents before outlining his ‘big conversation’ on the issue during one of his first public outings

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

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July 29, 2026 12:45

Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks to care home residents Dorothea and Doreen during his visit to Jewish Care, July 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

This charming man... or bigmouth strikes again: what should Britain’s Jews expect from our Smiths fan PM Andy Burnham?

Opening chapter of his premiership has been sure-footed bar a couple of mishaps – but an early general election could change everything

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

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July 28, 2026 14:19

Andy Burnham at No10 North at Heron House in Manchester last Friday (Christopher Furlong/Getty)

By Dov Forman

Burnham has decided to throw British Jews under the bus

Labour has run the numbers and deemed us a small enough community to be sacrificed for a much larger and more valuable section of the electorate

7 min read

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July 28, 2026 13:46

Andy Burnham and Gary Lineker (Photo: X, Goalhanger)

New Foreign Office minister said Palestinians are subject to a ‘system of legal apartheid’

Uma Kumaran’s comments made just two weeks before her appointment by Andy Burnham have been labelled ‘inflammatory and false’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

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July 23, 2026 16:28

MP Uma Kumaran speaks during a reception in Downing Street in 2025 (Image: Getty)

Andy Burnham’s Israel policy is about appeasing Labour backbenchers – not UK national interests, says Kemi Badenoch

‘There are British citizens alive today because of intelligence Israel gave us,’ the opposition leader said

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

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July 23, 2026 12:56

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), in central London. (Image: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire).

If antizionism can thrive in the most Jewish city on earth outside of Israel, it can thrive everywhere

Government announces Cabinet committee on antisemitism ahead of West Bank sanctions

‘Listen to the Chief Rabbi – don’t sanction Israel’, MPs urge Burnham

Former UK ambassador to Israel warns sanctions against settlements may backfire

Burnham expected to sanction West Bank settlements before Labour conference next month

Why Labour’s attacks on Israel are really about winning back the Muslim vote

UN study debunks Gaza malnutrition claim, but Labour presses on

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More from Andy Burnham

Exclusive: Burnham gave government job to MP who accused Israel of ‘deliberately exterminating’ Gazans

Votes for 16-year-olds could boost anti-Israel candidates, Burnham warned

Jewish Care and how to create a decent society

Why as Prime Minister I’m using Jewish Care as a model for my social care reforms

Jewish Care is the ‘gold standard,’ says Andy Burnham at launch of major social care plans

This charming man... or bigmouth strikes again: what should Britain’s Jews expect from our Smiths fan PM Andy Burnham?

Burnham has decided to throw British Jews under the bus

New Foreign Office minister said Palestinians are subject to a ‘system of legal apartheid’

Andy Burnham’s Israel policy is about appeasing Labour backbenchers – not UK national interests, says Kemi Badenoch