Drill Andy drill? Burnham’s North Sea dilemma

钻孔安迪,钻孔?伯恩汉姆北海的困境

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2026-08-20

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  • Today, how green is Andy Burnham?

  • When the government sent out that emergency alert on Friday night, warning us all of the very high risk of wildfires.

  • Thankfully, I wasn't on live TV.

  • On the famous green sofa to share her memories of working alongside Adrian Charles.

  • Plus, we've got an incredible...

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  • I think it's a fire alarm.

  • Or at a music festival where everything suddenly felt very end of days.

  • Having a barbecue in the back garden not a disposable one mind annie burnham had banned

  • those from sale earlier in the day he scared the life out of me because i thought

  • that the emergency alert system was reserved for something huge like a nuclear attack well many people would say

  • that the alert was prompted by something potentially apocalyptic It seemed the new Prime Minister thought so too.

  • Farmers are watching crops fail and firefighters have faced hundreds of wildfires in a matter of weeks.

  • This is what climate change looks like here and now.

  • But for many of Andy Burnham's critics,

  • and even his supporters, the acknowledgement came too late and the barbecue ban amounted to too little.

  • They want him to take much more meaningful action and to put more space between labour and reform,

  • whose deputy leader Richard Tice this week urged us all to stop whinging about the weather

  • and pour ourselves a glass of English wine instead.