The Transatlantic Tea 41
Burnham's speech edition
Not a huge amount of coverage stateside for Burnham’s speech, though to be fair, we are gearing up for the massive 250th Birthday Party. And there have been quite a few new PMs in Britain over the last few years….
But to find out how the King of The North™ is being reported in the US…. keep reading!
Quite a lot of reliance on AP copy for this story. NBC led with ‘a circuit breaker to transform the UK economy’. Burnham’s future is summarized as “While Burnham is considered more charismatic than the stolid Starmer, he will face many of the same political and economic challenges, including a sluggish economy, tattered public services and a cost-of-living squeeze.” LA Times , WaPo and The Hill take the same AP copy but under the headline ‘Andy Burnham says he will hand more power to local governments if he becomes U.K. leader’
NYT leads on No10 North and a ‘major shift of power outside London’. They describe the speech as “upbeat… peppered with jokes and broad smiles.” and ends with economic concerns from the opposition, and concern he caused in financial markets last year with his comments about not being in hock to the bond markets.
Washington Examiner leads with Conservative Party criticism of an upcoming ‘summer of chaos’ from Kemi Badenoch’s speech, and then follows with a summary of Burnham’s speech. They focus on his pledge to move decision making, describing it as “The proposal for a prime ministerial office in the north of England — a region that is often characterized as forgotten or tread upon by the elites in the south — is somewhat novel, but the sentiment is not.”
And not quite Burnham’s speech, but worth watching CNN’s video report from Hastings which starts by asking if Starmer resigning is proof that Brexit Britain has now become unmanageable.
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