Burnham caps busy first week as UK's new prime minister at part-time office in Manchester

LONDON (AP) — Andy Burnham is a man in a hurry.

Since entering 10 Downing St. on Monday, Britain's new prime minister has traveled to the southeast, southwest and northwest of England, and to Scotland, spoken to more than a dozen world leaders and made a flurry of small but symbolic economic announcements: a tax cut on household electricity bills, a 2 pound ($2.70) cap on bus fares and a tax break for pubs.

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"We are on borrowed time if we don't get a move on," newly appointed Housing Secretary Angela Rayner told the BBC on Friday. "This is a down payment within the first week that says, 'We get it.'"

On Friday Burnham gathered Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants and regional mayors at "No, 10 North," an outpost of the prime minister's office in Manchester, 165 miles (265 kilometers) northwest of London.