Andy Burnham to become new prime minister and lay out ‘10-year plan’ for the UK in No 10 speech - UK politics live
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Andy Burnham is set to become the new prime minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Keir Starmer. Starmer will give a final speech from Downing Street before Burnham is appointed. This marks the sixth change of prime minister in just over a decade, and the transition process has been described as unusual.
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This is the sixth PM change in just over a decade.
This will be the sixth change of prime minister in the UK in just over a decade.
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The process of changing prime minister has been unusual.
Opinion- This is the sixth PM change in just over a decade.
- Mentions Theresa May replacing David Cameron in July 2016.
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Loaded language removed<p>Keir Starmer will give his final speech from Downing Street before Burnham arrives and is appointed as new PM</p><p>Good morning. Today we are getting a new PM. It is the sixth time this has happened in just over a decade (Theresa May replaced David Cameron on 13 July 2016), and so in some respects there is nothing very new or surprising about this. Yet the process has been unusual.
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The process of changing prime minister has been unusual.
OpinionKeir Starmer will give his final speech from Downing Street before Burnham arrives.
The GuardianThis will be the sixth change of prime minister in the UK in just over a decade.
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