{"id":40133,"date":"2026-07-21T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40133"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:20:13","slug":"new-british-prime-minister-burnham-sets-out-first-steps-to-reshape-britain","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/new-british-prime-minister-burnham-sets-out-first-steps-to-reshape-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"New British Prime Minister Burnham sets out first steps to reshape Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Andy Burnham will set out \u200bhis first measures as Britain&#8217;s new Prime Minister on Tuesday in an attempt to deliver on \u200chis promises to ease a cost of living crisis, improve lives and end a decade of political instability.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After appointing a top ministerial team which he hopes will be more agile than that of his predecessor Keir Starmer, Burnham wants to move quickly to show Britain politics can work \u200band improve living standards after years of stagnation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Alongside meeting his Cabinet of Ministers, he will also kick off \u200ba programme he believes can turn Britain around, hoping a bolder agenda can win back \u2060voters to the governing Labour Party and fight a challenge from the populist Reform United Kingdom.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I can do something to \u200bgive people some breathing space now, some help with the cost of living,&#8221; he said in a speech after becoming Britain&#8217;s \u200bseventh Prime Minister in a decade on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;And I will set out some of those measures starting tomorrow, including how we pay for them.&#8221; There is a lot at stake.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dubbed the &#8216;King of the North&#8217; for his dogged defence of the northwestern English area of Greater Manchester \u200bwhen Mayor, Burnham is the most popular leader of Britain&#8217;s main political parties and has overwhelming support in Labour.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But Britain&#8217;s \u200brevolving door of leaders over the past decade has underlined how quickly parties can move against leaders who are not seen as \u200cdelivering for \u2060voters, and Burnham will have to move quickly to stamp his authority on the government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He wants to hit the ground running.<\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40134,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-40133","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Andy Burnham will set out \u200bhis first measures as Britain's new Prime Minister","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40135,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40133\/revisions\/40135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}