Tuesday briefing: How might Andy Burnham bring his Makerfield magic to Westminster?
ONP Summary
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced his resignation following sustained unpopularity and unfavorable polling. Andy Burnham, who was recently elected as an MP, has consolidated backing across the Labour Party to become his successor with minimal internal opposition to his candidacy. He is expected to formally assume office as Prime Minister within weeks.
Progressive: Progressive outlets frame Burnham's ascension as bringing a widely-appealing, populist 'man of the people' figure to power, emphasizing his broad appeal while treating Starmer's departure with emotional dignity.
Moderate: Centrist outlets provide analytical coverage of the succession process, examining the political and polling factors that forced Starmer's resignation and detailing how the Labour Party's institutional machinery will select its new leader.
Conservative: Conservative outlets employ dramatic framing about Starmer being driven from office by political circumstances and question what implications Burnham's rapid path to the premiership holds for the UK-US relationship and the government's strategic direction.
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In today’s newsletter: Correspondents across the UK reveal the challenges that Labour’s newest MP will face from day one in the job
Good morning. It seems inevitable that Andy Burnham will become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade, after Keir Starmer announced his resignation on Monday morning and, hours later, Burnham’s most likely challenger, Wes Streeting, rowed in behind the former mayor of Greater Manchester.
Starmer leaves office barely two years after his landslide victory that swept Labour into power on a mandate of change. Six weeks after the party’s humiliation at the hands of Reform across English councils, and historic defeats to progressive nationalists in the Welsh Senedd and Scottish parliament, Burnham offered the country another “change moment”: winning an emphatic victory over Reform in last week’s Makerfield byelection, cementing the view that he can defeat the hard right at the next general election.
UK politics | A generation of young Britons who were locked out of the 2016 EU referendum because of their age now believe that Brexit has failed, with a majority demanding a fresh vote to rejoin the EU, exclusive polling shows.
Northern Ireland | Former DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, has been found guilty of 18 sexual offences against two victims who were children at the time of the abuse more than 30 years ago.
Heatwave | Met Office forecasters have issued a rare red weather warning for Wednesday and Thursday in the face of extreme heat and humidity, while a red heat health alert has been issued in England indicating “a risk to life for even the healthy population”.
Middle East | Iran has agreed to allow UN nuclear inspectors back into the country as part of an agreement under which Washington will lift sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports and the strait of Hormuz will reopen, the US vice-president, JD Vance, has said.
UK news | The Metropolitan police is to expand its use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology, first into London’s West End by Christmas and then into a further six areas next year.
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