Andy Burnham to become prime minister, pledging to ‘rewire Britain’

Burnham will use his first speech to set out a path for “a more stable and responsible politics”, his office said in a statement.

Andy Burnham becomes ​Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday, promising to “rewire“ the nation to focus more clearly on issues ‌people care about, such as a cost-of-living crisis and poorly performing services.