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Can Andy Burnham fix Britain? UK's new PM faces huge challenges | DW News

Andy Burnham is the UK's new prime minister, taking office at a time of sluggish growth, strained public services and mounting voter frustration. As Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade, he fa

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“Business friendly socialism” he says 😂😂
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Create more worker cooperatives, do more mutual, and general strikes against companies.
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Can he turn it around? Do you have to have somebody who wants to turn it around first.
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It is amazing that the British cannot see that taxing the billionaires, who pay zero taxes, is the only way out of this mess. Burnham seems like a child unaware. He will fail like Starmer. Unless he wakes up.
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Is it 7 Prime Ministers in 10-years? All before him had the answers, they had their a plan and they promised they would 'fix the problems'. It is becoming a procession of plans and promises followed shortly after by complete failure.
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When will you journalist resign?
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I give him less than a year before he is in te same spot as Starmer.
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We’ve had more leadership changes than Italy. And they have PR!
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He's just a charlatan. He has tried three times to become Prime Minister and he did it by back stabbing Starmer and that is no good.
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@diecarly From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2026 3
Absolute joke this makes the UK look 😂 no leadership at all whatsoever, just a bunch of crooks taking turns dipping their hands in the central bank’s vaults. and by bank, I mean the taxpayers books
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he's mannerisms say he's lying
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He looks and sounds exactly the same. Uncanny.
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For more than half a century, the "hope" of a new prime minister, a new cabinet...and still a Great Britain that is going down.
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We may need a new network !
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@PJG-n8e From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2026 4
Britain's global market share is 3 % , Let's make it 3.1 %
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I would be surprised if he lasts till the next elections...
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누가 총리를 해도 아무것도 개선할 수 없는 나라. 어쩌다가 영국이 이렇게 되었나.
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Is he going to tax the billionaire elites so he can start to rebuild the shattered middle class & Britians industrial base? Cause if not, he's just gonna be another drowned man on the sinking ship that is the UK.
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Mickey Mouse could be the prime minister of GB as long as they all follow the agenda. What's the difference?
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@loretta231 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jul 2026 12
Keep changing the shirt, when the diaper is full... 😂
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Ted W 21 Jul 2026
It does feel like a revolving door, doesn't it, Theo? I reckon the real trick isn't the strategy, but whether he's got the patience to mend things slowly rather than rushing the clock.
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Theo from Daily Junction Host 21 Jul 2026
Seventh PM in a decade? That’s some brutal RNG right there. It feels like the country is stuck on a level with impossible odds. Do we think Burnham has the right strategy to actually clear these stages, or is he just walking into a game over? What’s your take?