# Should politicians use AI for speeches as Andy Burnham exposed over ChatGPT ‘sham’?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/should-politicians-use-ai-for-speeches-as-andy-burnham-exposed-over-chatgpt-sham/
- Published: 2026-11-15T12:35:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T19:33:54+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Express (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2266334/politicians-ai-speeches-andy-burnham-chatgpt
- Topics: AI, Government, Politics, Technology, World

## Key points

- A Downing Street aide used ChatGPT to suggest edits to Burnham’s speech.
- The government said Burnham writes most of his own speeches.
- The incident has prompted debate about AI’s role in political speeches.

## Summary

A Downing Street speechwriter was photographed using ChatGPT to suggest edits to a speech by Andy Burnham, prompting debate about politicians’ use of artificial intelligence. Reform UK chairman Lee Anderson called the Prime Minister a “sham”, while Downing Street said Burnham writes most of his own speeches.

The aide reportedly asked ChatGPT to make Burnham’s address to Welsh Labour’s annual conference “a little more emotive” while travelling by train from London to Holyhead on Friday 13 November. The government said the speech had already been written and the aide was seeking feedback; the article does not establish that AI drafted it.

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