Andy Burnham's 9 Million-View Video Mocks Badenoch's 'Black T-Shirt' Swipe

1 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 3

More than 9 million views across Facebook and X have turned Andy Burnham’s five-second “fact check” clip into his latest viral hit after Kemi Badenoch mocked him as “a pair of eyelashes and a black T-shirt.”
In the selfie video, Burnham bats his eyelashes, looks at his shirt and replies, “It’s dark blue, actually,” using the put-down itself as the punchline.
The clip adds to a run of viral videos since Burnham emerged last month as the likeliest successor to Keir Starmer, boosting his reach on social platforms where Nigel Farage has long been dominant.