What is Andy Burnham?
[[File:Andrew Burnham (2025) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Andy Burnham in 2025]] '''Andrew Murray Burnham''' (born 7 January 1970)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://andy4leader.com/about|title=Andy's biography from his Andy4Leader web-site|access-date=2012-07-28|archive-date=2010-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705100723/http://andy4leader.com/about/|url-status=dead}}</ref> is an [[English people|English]] politician. He was a candidate in the [[2010 Labour leadership election]]. As of 2012 Burnham was Shadow Secretary of State for Health within [[Ed Miliband]]'s [[Shadow Cabinet]]. He is the [[Member of Parliament]] for the [[Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)|Leigh]] [[constituency]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. He was first [[wikt:elect|elected]] in the [[United Kingdom general election, 2001|2001 general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo010704/debtext/10704-21.htm#10704-21_spnew1|title=House of Commons Hansard; vol 371, part 14, col 333|date=4 July 2001|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|access-date=12 October 2008}}</ref> Burnham was born in Old Roan, [[Aintree]], [[Lancashire]] and raised in [[Culcheth]], [[Warrington]]. He is a member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>[http://www.bacta.com/news_single.php?archive=&id=463 New Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} BACTA, 28 January 2008</ref> On 5 May 2017, he was elected [[mayor of Greater Manchester]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/andy-burnham-elected-greater-manchesters-12993211|title=Andy Burnham elected as Greater Manchester's mayor|last=Williams|first=Jennifer|date=2017-05-05|work=men|access-date=2017-05-09}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Burnham, Andy}} [[Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Members of the British House of Commons for English constituencies]] [[Category