{"id":97974,"date":"2026-07-21T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/uk-prime-minister-andy-burnam-britain-took-some-wrong-turns-in-the-1980s\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:43:12","slug":"uk-prime-minister-andy-burnam-britain-took-some-wrong-turns-in-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/uk-prime-minister-andy-burnam-britain-took-some-wrong-turns-in-the-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister Andy Burnam: Britain &#8220;Took Some Wrong Turns&#8221; In The 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Andy Burnham has become the sixth prime minister in just the past 10 years. Burnham argues that Britain&#8217;s centralization, privatization and deindustrialization began in the 1980s, squarely placing blame far away from the Labour Party.   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ANDY BURNHAM: In the 1980s, Britain took some wrong turns.  Political power was centralized, economic power privatized, large parts of the country deindustrialized, and they still haven&#8217;t recovered.  Many feel as though they&#8217;re still in decline, and they don&#8217;t have the ability to turn things around.  That&#8217;s why we will change politics-to make it more collaborative, more about problem-solving than point-scoring.  And we will take power out of here and carry it into every postcode in the land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/20\/uk_prime_minister_andy_burnam_britain_took_some_wrong_turns_in_the_1980s.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Burnham has become the sixth prime minister in just the past 10 years. Burnham argues that Britain&#8217;s centralization, privatization and deindustrialization began in the 1980s, squarely placing blame far away from the Labour Party. ANDY BURNHAM: In the 1980s, Britain took some wrong turns. Political power was centralized, economic power privatized, large parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23434,2898,1966,29957,2286,2285,1645,5307,2726,1740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}