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Burnham to fund No 10 social media with £1m yearly

9/7/2026

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  • Prime Minister Andy Burnham is allocating up to £1 million a year to expand No 10’s social-media operation.
  • The Cabinet Office advertised 13 social-media posts with salaries of £617,246-£731,933, costing taxpayers up to £1.04 million annually.
  • Since joining TikTok in May, Burnham posted 200 videos that earned 78.1 million views and 569,000 followers.
  • Former No 10 communications director Steph Driver warned that treating influencers as media stakeholders trades accountability for vanity metrics.