LONDON - Boris Johnson said on Thursday that he would resign as Britain's prime minister, bowing to calls from ministerial colleagues and lawmakers in his Conservative Party. "It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister,

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is stepping down. His likely successor, Andy Burnham, a popular former mayor, would become the U.K.'s seventh prime minister in 10 years.

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"Every decision I've taken has been about putting the country I love first," Starmer said outside Downing Street.

Former Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has officially become the new leader of the British Labour Party. He is expected to take over as the UK’s prime minister on Monday, when Sir Keir Starmer will step down after spending two years in the role.

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Burnham’s ascent to the helm of the Labour Party — and thus the prime minister’s office — veers far from the traditional pathways of British politics. Having left the Brit

The next prime minister promised nothing less than the biggest change in British politics in 40 years in his first speech as Labour leader.