00:00Andy Burnham is now Britain's seventh Prime Minister in a decade.
00:05Keir Starmer, flanked by his supporters, wished his successor well.
00:08My work is done. I go with good grace, I go with a smile and I go proud of everything
00:16that we have achieved.
00:18As he passed into the shadows, adamant that he wouldn't be a backseat driver to Burnham,
00:23in came the self-styled King of the North, promising a new economic and political model.
00:28We will make this moment a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward the biggest
00:35changes in the last 40 years.
00:39No lectern, no notes. He promised a 10-year plan in the coming months, help with the cost
00:46of living in the coming days. But first, he has to deal with the unenviable in-trade bequeathed
00:52to him by Starmer. The need to contain the welfare bill, reinvigorate productivity, overhaul
00:58social care and cut immigration in order to fend off the threat from Nigel Farage's reform
01:04UK. On top of that, Burnham also promised steadfast support for Ukraine and to honour pledges
01:10on defence spending. So it's a long laundry list and it doesn't even mention how he's going
01:15to deal with Donald Trump.
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