The previous Manchester mayor accepted the King’s request to turn out to be Prime Minister at Buckingham Palace earlier within the day.
The brand new Prime Minister – Britain’s seventh since 2016 – was greeted with applause and cheers as he introduced plans to “make politics work” and to “make it work higher.”
Mr Burnham additionally promised to set out a ten-year plan later this 12 months and measures to assist with the price of dwelling.
Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his spouse Marie-France van Heel pose on the steps of 10 Downing Avenue
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He concluded the speech by urging folks to “pull with me” and to “construct a brand new nationwide sense of unity, of frequent objective and positivity.”
Andy Burnham’s first speech in full
“I’ve simply come from Buckingham Palace, the place I’ve accepted His Majesty the King’s invitation to kind a Authorities.
“In doing so, I’m acutely acutely aware that I’m the sixth particular person within the final 10 years to stroll up this avenue, the seventh prime minister since 2016, making this a second for reflection and new decision.
“It requires my era of politicians to lift our sport and rise to the brand new problem.
“Britain wants to indicate the world that we will regain our stability as soon as once more, and that’s our problem – to make politics work, to make it work higher.
“I do know folks at dwelling are fed up with politics. I hear you and I wish to be trustworthy with you – we now have not been ok, and we must be higher. We shall be. We’ll make this second a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing ahead the largest adjustments within the final 40 years – a brand new political mannequin and a brand new financial mannequin.
“Within the Eighties, Britain took some fallacious turns. Political energy was centralised, financial energy privatised, giant components of the nation deindustrialised, they usually nonetheless haven’t recovered.
“Many really feel as if they’re nonetheless in decline they usually don’t have the flexibility to show issues round. And that’s why we’ll change politics to make it extra collaborative, extra about downside fixing than level scoring.
Andy Burnham delivers his speech outdoors Quantity 10 after changing into prime minister
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“And we’ll take energy out of right here, and carry it into each postcode within the land, in order that they’ll do extra, and in doing extra, construct a brand new financial system, the place we put life’s necessities again beneath stronger public management to make them reasonably priced to you once more, reindustrialising Britain utilizing public procurement to again British trade.
“Later this 12 months, I’ll deliver ahead a brand new plan for Britain, a 10-year plan, laying out a path from the place we at the moment are to the place I consider all of us need Britain to be, wherever we’re coming from, no matter occasion we assist.
“However I can do one thing to offer folks some respiratory area now, some assist with the price of dwelling, and I’ll set out a few of these measures beginning tomorrow, together with how we pay for them.
“We’ll assist extra younger folks into work by altering the schooling system and giving them extra assist, extra psychological well being assist, and we’ll construct extra council properties.
“That’s the honest and sustainable strategy to deliver the welfare invoice down, to fulfill our fiscal guidelines, and to honour our commitments on defence to our worldwide companions.
“We’ll assist folks to reside nicely, constructing a extra preventative state, investing in folks’s success moderately than paying for failure, and that work begins now.
“I’ll quickly undergo that door behind me and concern my first instruction to finish tough sleeping in our nation.
“It’s about placing the suitable values and the suitable requirements on the coronary heart of presidency. I’ll put the care of individuals on the coronary heart of all the things I do.
“I’ll give this my all, and I ask you all to tug with me. Let’s construct a brand new nationwide sense of unity, of frequent objective, and positivity.
“Allow us to make this the second when Britain begins to consider once more, the second we deliver again hope.
“Thanks very a lot, all people.”
