Andy Burnham, nicknamed the ‘king of the north’, was elected leader of the Labour party on Friday at a special party conference at the TUC headquarters in London, the final step before becoming Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade on a pledge to thwart the rise of the populist Reform UK. Burnham said the country was ‘crying out for a new politics’ and he wants to offer hope to people
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