The United Kingdom's new prime minister, Labour's Andy Burnham, began shaping his government with a cabinet reshuffle and a series of socially oriented announcements, hours after taking office in place of Keir Starmer. The former mayor of Greater Manchester, who reached Downing Street without a general election after winning the Labour leadership, is Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade.

"This generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply does not work well enough for ordinary people,"…

Andy Burnham will take oath on Monday to replace Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. | World News

Andy Burnham is finalizing his picks for Cabinet ministers ahead of his expected appointment as prime minister on Monday.