Britain's seventh prime minister in ten years took office Monday, promising even more of the same failed policies in his first address to the public.
Keir Starmer, who served as Prime Minister for just over two years, officially resigned Monday morning; back in June, he announced that he would resign as soon as his party chose a successor. That happened on July 16, when Andy Burnham was elected Leader of the Labour Party.
Burnham has served in numerous government positions over the years. First elected to Parliament in 2001, between 2007 and 2010 he served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Secretary of State for Health. He was elected Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017, then re-elected in 2021 and 2024, before returning to Parliament in June 2026.
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He spoke for about five minutes as he arrived at No. 10 Downing Street, pointedly criticizing the late Margaret Thatcher's policies and spouting socialist talking points.
He said:
Britain needs to show the world that we can regain our stability once again, and that is our challenge, to make politics work, to make it work better.
I know people at home are fed up with politics. I hear you. And I want to be honest with you. We have not been good enough, and we need to be better.
We will be.
We will make this moment a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward the biggest changes in the last forty years.
A new political model and a new economic model.
In the 1980s, Britain took some wrong turns. Political power was centralised, economic power privatised, large parts of the country de-industrialised, and they still haven’t recovered.
Many feel as though they’re still in decline, and they don’t have the ability to turn things around.
And that’s why we will change politics, to make it more collaborative, more about problem solving than point scoring.
We will take power out of here and carry it into every postcode in the land so that they can do more.
His promise to bring forward the biggest changes in the last 40 years with a new political model and a new economic model is laughable, since what he's saying he'll actually do is lean harder into failed policies. But he'll do it collaboratively and without "point scoring," so that's okay, or something.
Burnham promised a 10-year plan later in the year, but said he could do some things to "give people some breathing space now, some help with the cost of living," and referenced more mental health support in education and building more council homes.
Sounding like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Burnham said:
I will soon go through that door behind me and issue my first instruction: to end rough sleeping in our country.
As if by mere instruction homelessness can be ended.
The similarity to Newsom doesn't stop there. In Burnham's time as Manchester mayor, homelessness doubled.
When confronted with this data, and asked how he could end homelessness nationwide if he couldn't end it in Manchester, he had excuses.
"Well, the problem was down significantly from when I came in as mayor in Greater Manchester. Some of the issues you mentioned were outside of our control....
"We can do it now, get the basics right, put the care for people at the heart of everything that we do, and just get this country working as it should."
Good luck, Britain.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/07/20/keir-starmer-resigns-andy-burnham-more-socialism-n2204522
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