7th PM in a decade: Is Andy Burnham and Labour’s survival tactic a cure for UK’s woes?

LONDON – Britain is getting its seventh prime minister in a decade with the 56-year-old Andrew Burnham walking through the historical black door of 10 Downing Street on July 20, after a brief audience with King Charles III, the country’s monarch.

Andy – as he likes to be called – arrives promising the most radical rupture in Britain’s economic governance in half a century: the rollback of what he dismisses as the “neoliberalist” market economy, and the dismantling of a centralised British administration he accuses of hoarding both political and economic power.