Keir Starmer leaves Downing Street for the last time as Andy Burnham becomes prime minister

Andy Burnham is now Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Keir Starmer. Per The Conversation, Starmer led Labour for six years and served as Prime Minister for two, following the party's landslide victory in the twenty twenty-four general election. His popularity collapsed within a year following unpopular decisions on welfare reform, winter fuel payments, and inheritance taxes on farmland—moves that drew criticism from both his own party and the public. Poor results in the twenty twenty-six local elections and a series of cabinet resignations forced Starmer to resign. Burnham now faces a fractured political landscape: the Greens on the left, Reform UK on the right, and voters in the middle increasingly skeptical of Labour.

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