Andy Burnham's youth-support pledge gets a place on Leading
The interview channel has an unusually busy day as its recent clips range from support for young people to political transparency and condemnation.
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Story of Why this story? The whole channel is running at 754,517 views a day, 15 times a normal day (49,003).
"When Iran does it, or Afghanistan does it, we condemn it absolutely!"
Andy Burnham promises "whole government change in the way we support young people" in one of The Rest Is Politics: Leading's recent interview clips. It puts a practical question alongside the channel's broader political conversations: what should government do differently for the next generation?
Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell's channel has drawn roughly three-quarters of a million views in a day, about fifteen times its usual daily level. That is a channel-wide jump, not a total belonging to this clip alone.
The Burnham excerpts offer several distinct entry points into the interview. Alongside the youth-support pledge is his promise to publish details of meetings with Manchester City's owners. Another clip presents his description of US plans for public executions as "abhorrent."
Of those recent Burnham clips, the public-executions excerpt has the largest audience. The youth pledge brings a different emphasis to the same interview: the support government promises to provide, rather than the actions it condemns.
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Burnham became the first elected mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017.