Andy Burnham will be Britain’s seventh leader in a decade. Can he buck the trend?
London — Andy Burnham has been confirmed as the new leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party, and will become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade of extraordinary political instability when he succeeds Keir Starmer on Monday.
By winning in Makerfield, Burnham demonstrated to Labour MPs wary of losing their seats in the next general election that he could take the fight to Reform, who have led national opinion polls for months.
A by-election was engineered, his ally Josh Simons resigning his seat in Makerfield – in the historic Labour heartlands of northern England where the hard-right populist party Reform UK is surging – and Burnham emerged victorious from the closely-watched race.
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