US’ Best Pal Picks Died-In-Wool Socialist To Replace Deeply Unpopular Leader

Andy Burnham will become British prime minister Monday after the ruling left-wing Labour Party formally declared him its new leader on Friday.

Burnham ran unopposed, with 379 of Labour’s 403 members of Parliament backing his bid,according to CBS News. He replaces deeply unpopular outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who faced weeks of pressure to quit after Labour’s disastrous showing in May’s local elections.

Starmer will formally tender his resignation Monday.

The Labour Party will get “hope back,” Burnham said in his first speech as leader adding the he “has a plan,” theBBC reported.

The Labour Party did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

“ surrendered control of the essentials: housing, water, energy, transport, and left the people exposed to higher costs” when “political power was centralized, and economic power was privatized,” Burnham declared in his acceptance speech. “Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas.”

“If we don’t have sufficient public control over the cost of the essentials, how can we have control over inflation, public spending, and the rest of the economy?” he asked the audience.

Burnham celebrated the Liverpool mayor’s plan to return the region’s entire commuter rail network to public ownership by 2028, which would be “a plan to cut fairs, make trains run on time, and a railway run in the interests of the passengers, not shareholders.” He added that Labour had placed “rail back under public control.”