Who is Andy Burnham, the ‘man of the people’ likely to be next UK prime minister? ^43.7%

The Guardian - By Daniel Boffey - 6/22/2026, 5:47 PM

Halo Effect 26.2% - Appeal to Emotion 22.9% - Negativity Bias 15.6%

In the story that Andy Burnham tells about himself, “the turning point” in his political life came in 2009 when he was booed at a football ground in the north-west of England. He had been an ideologically reliable middle-ranking minister under Tony Blair, the centrist New Labour prime minister between 1997 and 2007, and had gone on to be... more