Andy Burnham is declared leader of Britain's Labour Party, will become prime minister on Monday
Source: AP
Updated 7:15 AM EDT, July 17, 2026
LONDON (AP) — Andy Burnham was officially declared leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party on Friday, clearing his final hurdle to taking office as prime minister next week.
The center-left party announced the result of a leadership contest to replace departing Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in which Burnham was the only contender.
The announcement was a forgone conclusion after he secured nominations from 379 of the 403 Labour lawmakers in the House of Commons as of Thursday night.
Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, has been prime minister-in-waiting for weeks, but he has revealed little detail about his policy priorities. He will arrive in Number 10 Downing Street largely unknown to voters outside Manchester.
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He sounds like a progressive leader too.
From the OP link:
Burnham began sketching out some of his priorities in his first speech as Labour leader, and will say that he will have the “courage to fix the big things that politics has neglected,” his office said.
He will highlight plans to focus on economic renewal, more public control of key sectors and creating new modern industrial jobs, arguing that Britain took “a series of wrong turns in the 1980s” when “political power was centralized and economic power privatized.”
Good luck Mr. Burnham!
