{"id":93321,"date":"2026-06-22T10:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93321"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:07:14","slug":"will-burnham-be-a-better-prime-minister-than-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/22\/will-burnham-be-a-better-prime-minister-than-starmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Burnham be a better prime minister than Starmer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The obvious question to ask this morning is, will Burnham be a better prime minister than Starmer?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-437\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_437\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/Blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_437_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"76522f938a\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Will Andy Burnham be a better prime minister than Keir Starmer?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-437-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1916\" name=\"poll_437\" value=\"1916\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1916\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1917\" name=\"poll_437\" value=\"1917\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1917\">No<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1918\" name=\"poll_437\" value=\"1918\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1918\">Are you kidding?<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1919\" name=\"poll_437\" value=\"1919\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1919\">I am not sure<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(437);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(437); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-437-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The obvious question to ask this morning is, will Burnham be a better prime minister than Starmer? Will Andy Burnham be a better prime minister<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/22\/will-burnham-be-a-better-prime-minister-than-starmer\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93322,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93321\/revisions\/93322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}