A structured archive of Andy Burnham's record in public life, built entirely from public sources, searchable in the browser. It covers his time as MP for Leigh (2001 to 2017), as a minister and Secretary of State (2005 to 2010), as a Labour leadership candidate (2010, 2015 and 2026), as Mayor of Greater Manchester (2017 to 2026) and as Prime Minister (from July 2026). Every record carries provenance: what it is, where it came from, and a link to the original.
| Material | Source | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Commons speeches, questions, debates (2001–2017) | Hansard, via the TheyWorkForYou API | Parliamentary material, Open Parliament Licence |
| Division votes (2001–2017) | Public Whip | Open data |
| Ministerial speeches and government output | gov.uk and the UK Government Web Archive | Open Government Licence |
| Mayoral statements, press releases, governance minutes | Greater Manchester Combined Authority | Public record |
| Committee evidence | Parliament Committees API | Parliamentary material |
| Press coverage | Guardian Open Platform API (full text under its terms); other outlets as curated summary-and-link records only | Copyright respected: summaries and links, never article text |
| Reports and white papers | Official PDFs (Hillsborough Independent Panel, Francis reports, National Care Service white paper and others), text-extracted | Public documents |
| His social media output | Public Instagram posts | Summary records of his own public statements |
Public sources only. Every record carries provenance and links to its original. Press records are summaries with links, not article text, except Guardian material which arrives in full through the Guardian's own API under its terms; quotations are short extracts with attribution. Records in his own voice are marked as such and distinguished from contextual coverage. Nothing after 19 June 2026 is attributed to him as mayor. Where the archive cannot support a claim, its briefing pages say so rather than fill the gap.
The archive currently holds no broadcast or podcast transcripts, which for a broadcast-heavy politician is the largest gap; no material before his election in June 2001; only thin coverage of the 2010 and 2015 leadership campaigns; sparse press coverage before the 2010s outside the Guardian; and limited third-party critique, since most families are first-party sources (Hansard, gov.uk, GMCA). Mayoral question time transcripts and scrutiny-committee records are also not yet ingested. These gaps are stated here so the archive is never mistaken for the whole record.
The archive refreshes daily, unattended: new Commons material when Parliament sits, new gov.uk and No 10 output, Guardian coverage via API, and a curated sweep of other outlets with dates verified on the article page before ingest. The front page shows the current snapshot date and record count. The RSS feed carries each day's new coverage, the same material as the Favourites In the news page.
Every search has a shareable address (the query and filters live in the URL), and every record has a permalink of the form /#r=<record path>, reachable from any citation link on the briefing pages. For the underlying primary document, follow the record's own source link. The archive is a finding aid; the authoritative text is always the original.
Search is lexical, not semantic: it matches words (with stemming and a curated set of synonyms), so absence of results is not evidence of absence. The loyalty page uses Public Whip's party-majority measure, which cannot distinguish whipped votes from free votes, and says so. Briefing pages are narratives assembled from first-party records and mark where adversarial or independent material is missing.