‘Within 10 mins, Andy had nicked it’: illustrator on his ubiquitous image of Andy Burnham

<p>With its light scowl and dark attire, Stanley Chow’s creation has become visual shorthand for the politician’s anti-establishment sentiment</p><p>It was shortly after Andy Burnham’s famously rousing speech outside the Manchester Central Library in October 2020 that Stanley Chow decided to draw him. Or rather his wife did.</p><p>“It was the pandemic and we were all so down in the dumps at that point,” says the illustrator, speaking from his home in the city this week. But I remember looking around and he had just moved everyone.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/20/stanley-chow-andy-burnham-illustration">Continue reading...</a>