The new leader of the British Labour Party, Andy Burnham, was named Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King Charles III on Monday. The sovereign asked him to form the Government.
The official is a former mayor of Greater Manchester and is 56 years old. The King received him on Monday at lunchtime, at Buckingham Palace.
Andy Burnham is the fourth prime minister appointed by Charles III, since his ascension to the throne in September 2022, writes news.ro.
Labour’s Andy Burnham has taken over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and intends to establish at Downing Street both a change of style and policy. The new cabinet of ministers is set to be announced shortly on Monday.
He announced that he wants to decentralize power, to abandon the project of a digital identity card proposed by Keir Starmer with the aim of combating undocumented migrant labor, and to authorize the development of oil and gas extraction and processing in the North Sea.