‘We need to be better’: Arise, Andy Burnham, Britain’s seventh PM in a decade
I will give this my all, and I ask you all to pull with me.Burnham said his generation of politicians needed to “raise our game”.AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth“Let’s build a new national sense of unity, of common purpose, and positivity. In 6½ years, I took our party from a historic defeat in 2019, changed it so it was fit to face the country, and won a landslide general election victory in 2024,” he said.Keir Starmer receives applause as he leaves No. The Conservative Party has 117 seats, the Liberal Democrats have 71, Reform UK has seven and the Greens have five.
- ▪I will give this my all, and I ask you all to pull with me.Burnham said his generation of politicians needed to “raise our game”.AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth“Let’s build a new national sense of unity, of common purpose, and positivity.
- ▪In 6½ years, I took our party from a historic defeat in 2019, changed it so it was fit to face the country, and won a landslide general election victory in 2024,” he said.Keir Starmer receives applause as he leaves No.
- ▪The Conservative Party has 117 seats, the Liberal Democrats have 71, Reform UK has seven and the Greens have five.
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