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UK’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham vows to ‘build a new economy’ in maiden speech

Cover image: Britain's newly appointed Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London on July 20, 2026. © Temilade Adelaja, Reuters

Former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham became the UK's seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday after a meeting with King Charles II at Buckingham Palace. The incoming PM pledged to reshape the country's politics and ease its cost of living crisis as he announced a 10-year plan to "build a new economy" for Britain.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham acknowledged his precarious perch Monday as the seventh British leader in just over a decade as he set out an ambitious but vague vision to create a new political and economic establishment.

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