Can new UK prime minister Andy Burnham heal British politics?

Speaking during his inauguration speech on Monday, new UK prime minister – the seventh in the last 10 years, if you’re keeping score – Andy Burnham spoke of his mission to “bring back hope” and to make Britain “believe again”.Good luck to him.Burnham knows the job ahead is unlikely to be an easy one, but he’s put the work in to get here, from emerging as a fresh-faced MP at the turn of the century to failed attempts to take over the Labour leadership in 2010 and 2015, to finally ascending to…