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 Road
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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 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 technology of politicians to boost our sport and rise to the brand new problem.
“Britain wants to point out the world that we are able to 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 residence are fed up with politics. I hear you and I wish to be sincere with you – we’ve not been adequate, and we should be higher. We might be. We’ll make this second a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing ahead the most important modifications within the final 40 years – a brand new political mannequin and a brand new financial mannequin.
“Within the Nineteen Eighties, Britain took some improper turns. Political energy was centralised, financial energy privatised, massive components of the nation deindustrialised, and so they nonetheless haven’t recovered.
“Many really feel as if they’re nonetheless in decline and so they don’t have the flexibility to show issues round. And that’s why we are going to change politics to make it extra collaborative, extra about downside fixing than level scoring.
Andy Burnham delivers his speech exterior Quantity 10 after changing into prime minister
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“And we are going to 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 economic system, the place we put life’s necessities again underneath stronger public management to make them reasonably priced to you once more, reindustrialising Britain utilizing public procurement to again British business.
“Later this 12 months, I’ll carry ahead a brand new plan for Britain, a 10-year plan, laying out a path from the place we are actually to the place I consider all of us need Britain to be, wherever we’re coming from, no matter get together we assist.
“However I can do one thing to offer folks some respiratory house 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 training system and giving them extra assist, extra psychological well being assist, and we are going to construct extra council properties.
“That’s the truthful and sustainable solution to carry 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 dwell nicely, constructing a extra preventative state, investing in folks’s success somewhat than paying for failure, and that work begins now.
“I’ll quickly undergo that door behind me and difficulty my first instruction to finish tough sleeping in our nation.
“It’s about placing the proper values and the proper requirements on the coronary heart of presidency. I’ll put the care of individuals on the coronary heart of every thing 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 carry again hope.
“Thanks very a lot, all people.”
