Andy Burnham has a serious lookalike and she wants to ask him 1 thing | Politics | News

Thousands of people admired a woman who looked like Andy Burnham and called her Mandy Burnham. On TikTok, a woman named Pastor Emma Roberts, 54, bears an uncanny resemblance to the new Prime Minister, with the same haircut, eyebrows, glasses and smile. Emma, ​​who has nearly 1,300 followers, often discusses religion and politics on her account and posed a question to the new Prime Minister.

On her TikTok account @quakerologyemma, she says: “As you know, people call me Mandy Burham and that’s really interesting to me because I comment on religious issues, spiritual issues and politics. So I guess it’s interesting to me that Andy Burnham is a catholic, a non-practising catholic. Will that change British politics?”

Andy Burnham, who is a good user of social media, has also appeared in several online videos.

Emma says: “I loved her bar snacks video, some thought it was a bit of a gimmick but I’m all for the prawn fries and prawn cocktail chips.

“He wasn’t even drinking a pint of beer, which was disappointing, but I think there were other videos of him doing that. But what I’m seriously interested in is the extent to which his Catholic faith undergirds his whole approach.”

Emma, ​​from Swansea, backs the Prime Minister’s tax cut on pubs and acknowledges the similarities by appealing to people who call her Mandy Burnham.

He said: “People love it and find it funny. I was talking to my mum and sister on Zoom and I said, ‘People say I look like Andy Burnham.’

“And my mom said, ‘I’ve been thinking the same thing for 20 minutes.’ I couldn’t believe it,” he says. Sun.

Andy Burnham was born in Liverpool in 1970 and grew up in Cheshire.

The new Prime Minister studied English at Cambridge University and worked as a journalist before switching to politics in his early 20s.

He became an MP for the first time in 2001 and also held cabinet positions in the government of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Burnham is most recently known as the mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017.