Burnham will have to master something Starmer couldn’t: the art of dealing with Donald Trump | Gaby Hinsliff
The new PM will need a superb foreign secretary and the ability to get like-minded countries on board. Early signs suggest he may have the right skills
It’s all starting to feel very real now. Or so Andy Burnham said on the day he in effect became Britain’s official prime minister-in-waiting; a moment both heady and sobering.
The papers are signed, the die cast. Keir Starmer has yet to leave the building, but his party is already talking about him as if he somehow couldn’t hear. On Friday, Burnham made his first brutal break with his predecessor, apologising over Starmer’s head for Labour’s handling of the war in Gaza. The government should, he said, have called for a ceasefire earlier, and should now be increasing pressure on Israel.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
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