{"id":363627,"date":"2026-07-22T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/burnhams-german-plan-why-britains-new-pm-is-looking-to-europe-berlin-briefing-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:00:51","slug":"burnhams-german-plan-why-britains-new-pm-is-looking-to-europe-berlin-briefing-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/burnhams-german-plan-why-britains-new-pm-is-looking-to-europe-berlin-briefing-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham&#8217;s German plan: Why Britain&#8217;s new PM is looking to Europe | Berlin Briefing Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/nKAVRPAwL0s\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Burnham's German plan: Why Britain's new PM is looking to Europe | Berlin Briefing Podcast\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nKAVRPAwL0s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Brexit was supposed to pull Britain away from Europe. Yet 10 years on, Britain&#8217;s new prime minister is championing ideas that look strikingly familiar to Germans. So why is Andy Burnham borrowing from a model that Germany itself is starting to question? In this episode of Berlin Briefing, Nina Haase and Richard Walker talk to London-based German journalists Annette Dittert and Birgit Maass to decipher why Andy Burnham and Friedrich Merz have more in common than meets the eye, how London may say goodbye to the Westminster System and follow a more Bund and L\u00e4nder playbook, how Labour\u2019s new social policies are keen to take a leaf out of Germany\u2019s constitutional Basic Law, and what the new prime minister and his cabinet will mean for Britain&#8217;s NATO allies.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Why Burnham is looking to Germany<br \/>\n03:34 Why the UK keeps changing leaders<br \/>\n07:02 The cost of living crisis<br \/>\n10:53 A German model for Britain?<br \/>\n15:31 Regional power, the German way<br \/>\n19:05 Shared problems, different leaders<br \/>\n22:29 How Britain and Germany face the far right<br \/>\n26:33 Berlin\u2019s first signals to Burnham<br \/>\n29:21 Meet Burnham\u2019s inner circle<br \/>\n32:03 Defense spending meets industrial policy<br \/>\n34:46 Europe&#8217;s Trump challenge<br \/>\n37:51 Can Burnham succeed where others failed?<\/p>\n<p>Berlin Briefing won the UK\u2019s Publisher Podcast award for Best Political Podcast: https:\/\/publisherpodcasts.com\/2026\/en\/page\/winners-2026<\/p>\n<p>DW Berlin Briefing on<\/p>\n<p>Apple Podcasts: DW Berlin Briefing &#8211; Inside German politics https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/dw-berlin-briefing-inside-german-politics\/id1775699172<\/p>\n<p>Spotify: DW Berlin Briefing &#8211; Inside German politics https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/07Wp4c6w9qVIYmB7JIbFBZ<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe Berlin Briefing Newsletter: https:\/\/corporate.dw.com\/en\/newsletter-registration\/a-15718229<\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>#dwgermanpolitics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit was supposed to pull Britain away from Europe. Yet 10 years on, Britain&#8217;s new prime minister is championing ideas that look strikingly familiar to Germans. So why is Andy Burnham borrowing from a model that Germany itself is starting to question? 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