MOSCOW, July 21 — The United Kingdom (UK)’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday pledged in his first address from Downing Street to deliver the “biggest changes” in British politics and the economy in four decades, reported Sputnik/RIA Novosti.
“We will make this moment a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward the biggest changes in the last 40 years, a new political model and a new economic model,” he said, speaking from the podium outside the prime minister’s official residence.
Burnham said that the UK had taken several wrong turns in the 1980s.
“Political power was centralised, economic power privatised. Large parts of the country were deindustrialised 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,” he said.
The new prime minister pledged to reshape UK politics, making it “more collaborative, more about problem solving than point scoring.”
Earlier on Monday, King Charles III accepted Keir Starmer’s resignation, and Burnham officially assumed office. The monarch asked him to form a government.
Meanwhile, Sky News reported that Burnham held a phone call with United States (US) President Donald Trump.
