Andy Burnham to become new prime minister and lay out ‘10-year plan’ for the UK in No 10 speech - UK politics live
Tom Ambrose (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier)Guardian - World

Keir Starmer will give his final speech from Downing Street before Burnham arrives and is appointed as new PM Good morning. Today we are getting a new PM. It is the sixth time this has happened in just over a decade (Theresa May replaced David Cameron on 13 July 2016), and so in some respects there is nothing very new or surprising about this. Yet the process has been unusual. In the past, when parties in power have replaced a PM, generally they have opted for someone popular with their own MPs,
John Healey has been named chancellor in Andy Burnham’s first Cabinet appointment.
Healey resigned as defence secretary last month , in protest at Keir Starmer’s defence investment plan.
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