Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester and new leader of the Labour Party, is taking the final steps to succeed Keir Starmer and become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade.
Background
Burnham returned to Parliament in June by winning a special election and was sworn in as a member on July 12, hours after Starmer announced his resignation.
Burnham says he will replicate “Manchesterism” on a national scale, harnessing public and private investment to spur economic growth and handing power from central government to local and regional leaders across the country.
What’s Next
Burnham will have to convince a skeptical British public that he has what it takes to make their lives better. He will be the country’s seventh prime minister since 2016.
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