Andy Burnham makes first speech as new Labour leader

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Andy Burnham makes first speech as new Labour leader  "This generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply does not work well enough for ordinary people," Burnham said.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/07/17/andy-burnham-set-to-become-labour-leader-before-taking-over-as-uk-pm  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:01Andy Burnham has been named as the Labour Party's new leader and is set to take over as the UK's

00:08seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday. Burnham was announced as the new head of the

00:14party at a special press conference on Friday. Burnham vowed to sweep changes to British politics

00:21and criticised his generation of politicians for not doing enough for working class people

00:26across the UK. We are united and we put the power that comes from that unity at the service of

00:35people

00:35and places who have been waiting too long for politics to let them hope again. And that's what

00:43we're going to do everybody. We're going to give them hope back. Burnham has focused on the idea of

00:49devolution, pledging to help power flow into other parts of the UK. He also said he would put an end

00:55to trickle down economics and neoliberalism and undertake the largest council house building

01:01programme since World War II.

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