Burnham Starts Premiership Short on Cash, Ideas

UK Special Coverage Burnham Starts Premiership Short on Cash, Ideas The new prime minister has yet to show much cause for hope amid the UK’s fiscal spiral. UK Special Coverage (Carl Court/Getty Images) Iain Macwhirter Jul 21, 2026 12:03 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Britain’s latest prime minister, the seventh in 10 years, registered his first policy failure even before he took office. Andy Burnham’s only concrete pledge on the doorstep of Number 10 this morning was to end rough sleeping in Britain. It didn’t take long for journalists to discover that he had failed in a similar promise when he became mayor of Greater Manchester. Indeed, rough sleeping roughly doubled during his last five years in office from its low point.

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