New UK PM Burnham stamps authority with cabinet shakeup
(Photo by Christopher Furlong / POOL / AFP) New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham took power Monday, purging the cabinet of his predecessor’s loyalists as he promised a 10-year plan to ease cost-of-living pressures and signalled a tilt to the left.
Labour Party leader Andy Burnham talks to staff during a to The Passage Homeless Charity in London early on July 20, 2026, just hours before taking the role as the country’s new prime minister.
Burnham, 56, pledged to re-industrialise Britain and decentralise power as well as end sleeping rough on the streets after he met King Charles III at Buckingham Palace to become the head of government following Starmer’s departure.
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