Tag: Andy Burnham PM

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 09:26 UTC

  Burnham’s Britain: what kind of country has UK’s new prime minister inherited?

  

  By Ben Wellings, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University - When Andy Burnham was handed the keys to 10 Downing Street on Monday, the United Kingdom will have its seventh prime minister in the ten years since it voted to leave the European Union. It begs the question: what is it about the UK that makes governing it so difficult at this point in time?

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 09:15 UTC

  PM Burnham first day in office “welcomed” by Russian navy live fire gunnery in the Channel south of Plymouth

  

  In what appears to have been a calculated show of military presence close to the UK, the Russian Navy marked the first full day of Andy Burnham’s premiership by conducting a live-fire gunnery exercise in the English Channel while under close surveillance from the Royal Navy.