Andy Burnham becomes UK prime minister after meeting king

LONDON: Andy Burnham became British prime minister on Monday (Jul 20) after meeting King Charles III at Buckingham Palace and was set to set out his vision for the country after taking over from Keir Starmer.Starmer departed Downing Street on Monday morning, insisting in a farewell speech his two years in office had made Britain a better place.The monarch met Starmer to accept his resignation and Burnham arrived next for the formal procedure in which the king asked him to form the next government and he accepted.The 56-year-old is the sixth prime minister to enter Downing Street in the last 10 years. "I am confident that Britain is now stronger and fairer than it was two years ago," Starmer told reporters in his farewell speech outside his central London office."I go with good grace, I go