Socialist To Be Prime Minister
Keir Starmer will tender his resignation today as Prime Minister of Great Britain. American President Donald Trump confirmed as much on Sunday.
The only remaining question: Who will succeed Starmer? There’s quite a lot of speculation, mostly focusing on Andy Burnham, a Labour Party member of Parliament. Burnham just won re-election by a clean margin over his Reform Party opponent, taking roughly 55 percent of the vote in his northern district of Makerfield.
Burnham is even more of a leftist than Starmer. A politician who identifies as a Socialist, Burnham is an outspoken opponent to nationalism, calling it “an ugly brand of politics.”
Can the Right stop his new regime? That will require Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain working together, rather than cutting each other off. Hard to say if that can happen. Here, analyst David Starkey discusses Burnham with Mark Littlewood. Their take? Burham will crash and burn, but the right is in danger as well.
