Can Andy Burnham succeed where his predecessors have failed?
The UK’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham is promising to ‘bring back hope’ to the country. He is the seventh person to hold the office since 2016, taking over from Keir Starmer.
Burnham has pledged to oversee the biggest changes in the UK for four decades and bring back political stability.
He has assembled a cabinet of trusted allies, appointing John Healey as Chancellor, Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary and retaining Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary.
His government has unveiled ambitious plans to ease the cost of living crisis, including removing VAT from electricity bills from October and…
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