Chris Mason: Burnham is fifth PM in four years – now he’ll try to buck the trend
By lunchtime today, the UK will have its fifth prime minister in four years. No other sentence can so pithily summarise the nature of British politics right now than that one. In the summer of 2022 Boris Johnson was on his way out, but still in office. Since then there has been Liz Truss, Rishi […] The post Chris Mason: Burnham is fifth PM in four years – now he’ll try to buck the trend appeared first on The Namibian .
By lunchtime today, the UK will have its fifth prime minister in four years.
No other sentence can so pithily summarise the nature of British politics right now than that one.
In the summer of 2022 Boris Johnson was on his way out, but still in office. Since then there has been Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.
Little wonder Andy Burnham will say later, we are told, that he is “acutely conscious” of this churn at the top. His critics, within the Labour Party and beyond it, may allow themselves a wry smile at that, given they would argue he has been agitating for this moment for ages.
In the post-pandemic, post-Brexit 2020s, when for so long so many have felt like life is getting harder, the national mood is impatient and political support is fragmenting.
