The frontrunner to become Britain's next prime minister, Andy Burnham, vowed in a speech Monday to "bring about the biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen" if he succeeds Keir Starmer. Burnham -- currently the only candidate to replace Starmer, who resigned as Labour leader and prime minister earlier this month -- pledged to devolve greater
Andy Burnham, likely the next U.K. prime minister, pledged Monday to give away a chunk of his power by handing greater autonomy to local leaders in a "circuit-breaker" for the sclerotic British state. The former mayor of Greater Manchester also said he would move part of the prime minister's office from London's 10 Downing St. to northwest England
Britain looks set to get a change of tone at the top, replacing stolid, unpopular Prime Minister Keir Starmer with popular, affable Andy Burnham. But the charismatic Burnham may have difficulty - at least initially - distancing himself from policies set in motion by his predecessor. Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester who was sworn into