Andy Burnham takes over as UK prime minister, calls for 'new political model'

New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham assumed powerfulness Monday morning, vowing to determination authorization distant from London arsenic his caller authorities confronts economical strain, governmental instability and imaginable friction with Washington.

"We volition alteration politics, to marque it much collaborative, much astir problem-solving than constituent scoring," Burnham said extracurricular 10 Downing Street. "And we volition instrumentality powerfulness retired of present and transportation it into each postcode successful the land, truthful that they tin bash more.

"And, successful doing more, physique a caller system wherever we enactment life's essentials backmost nether stronger nationalist power to marque them affordable to you again – reindustrializing Britain, utilizing nationalist procurement to backmost British industry."

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Andy Burnham delivers his inaugural code arsenic UK's caller Prime Minister connected on July 20, 2026 successful London, England. The Member of Parliament for Makerfield becomes the UK's 59th Prime Minister, succeeding Sir Keir Starmer, who resigned arsenic person of the Labour Party and Prime Minister successful June. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Burnham, 56, was greeted by King Charles III astatine Buckingham Palace, London, connected Monday earlier his swearing-in and archetypal remarks. King Charles formally requested that Burnham signifier a caller administration, and Burnham accepted.

"I person conscionable travel from Buckingham Palace, wherever I person accepted His Majesty the King's invitation to signifier a government," Burnham's little instauration began. "{And successful doing so, I americium acutely conscious that I americium the sixth idiosyncratic successful the past 10 years to locomotion up this street: The seventh Prime Minister since 2016, making this a infinitesimal for reflection and caller resolution. 

"It requires my procreation of politicians to rise our crippled and emergence to the caller challenge. Britain needs to amusement the satellite that we tin regain our stableness erstwhile again, and that is our situation to marque authorities work, to marque it enactment better," helium said. "I cognize radical astatine location are fed up with politics. I perceive you and I privation to beryllium honorable with you: We person not been bully capable and we request to beryllium better. We volition be."

Burnham called for sweeping governmental and economical changes, stating that "Britain took immoderate incorrect turns" successful the 1980s.

"We volition marque this infinitesimal a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing guardant the biggest changes successful the past 40 years," helium said. "A caller governmental exemplary and a caller economical model."

New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is welcomed by King Charles III during an assemblage astatine Buckingham Palace successful London connected Monday, July 20, 2026. Burnham was invited to go premier curate and signifier a caller government. (PA Wire/PA Images)

Outgoing Keir Starmer officially submitted his resignation and passed "the baton" successful remarks extracurricular 10 Downing Street.

"As I present walk the baton to Andy Burnham, I privation him each success," Starmer said. "He has my afloat support.

"For each the absorption connected individuals, authorities volition ever beryllium a squad athletics and the changes we person delivered for our state and our enactment beryllium to everyone who has fought for them. I convey them again today, and I convey the British radical for the accidental to serve.

"I spell with bully grace, I spell with a smile, and I spell arrogant of everything that we person achieved."

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His narration with Washington could supply an aboriginal foreign-policy test. Burnham has repeatedly criticized Trump, comparing the instability surrounding the president’s instrumentality to bureau with the turmoil nether erstwhile British Prime Minister Liz Truss and informing against importing what helium called America’s polarized governmental culture.

He has maintained the U.S.-U.K. narration remains important, though, pledging continuity connected NATO, Britain’s atomic deterrent and enactment for Ukraine.

Trump antecedently dismissed Burnham arsenic the erstwhile "mayor of a town" and said helium had heard the incoming British person was "extremely liberal." Reform UK has besides challenged Burnham’s mandate, arguing that helium should telephone a wide predetermination aft reaching Downing Street without facing either a competitory Labour enactment contention oregon a nationwide vote.

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Outgoing Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer bid farewell to bureau Monday greeting extracurricular 10 Downing Street: 'As I present walk the baton to Andy Burnham, I privation him each success: He has my afloat support.' (Carl Court/Getty Images)

Burnham succeeds Starmer aft becoming Labour person unopposed Friday. He enters bureau without a caller nationalist ballot nether Britain’s parliamentary system, which allows the governing enactment to alteration leaders midterm. The adjacent wide predetermination is not required until 2029, though Burnham could telephone 1 earlier.

At the halfway of his docket is what helium calls "Manchesterism" — an effort to springiness cities and regions greater authorization implicit transportation, housing, infrastructure and economical development. He has paired that attack with what helium describes arsenic "business-friendly socialism," combining greater nationalist power of indispensable services with practice betwixt authorities and backstage industry.

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Burnham's accomplishment astatine Downing Street caps a decade-long governmental comeback. After losing his 2nd Labour enactment contention successful 2015, Burnham near nationalist authorities and built a caller powerfulness basal successful Greater Manchester, wherever 9 years arsenic politician earned him the nickname "King of the North" and a estimation arsenic an effectual communicator consenting to situation the authorities successful London.

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"I volition enactment to physique a caller politics; the state is crying retired for it," helium said Friday. "People are looking for america to deliver, and we will."

Reuters and Fox News' Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.