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Andy Burnham appointed Britain's new prime minister

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Andy Burnham was sworn in as the United Kingdom's new prime minister, taking over from the historically unpopular Keir Starmer. The former Manchester mayor has taken the country's top elected office just four weeks after entering parliament, having been floated as Starmer's most likely successor since his premiership entered its existential danger phase earlier this year. Burnham said: 'Political power was centralized, economic power privatized. Large parts of the country deindustrialized, and they still haven't recovered.'