Favourite to replace Starmer as British PM sworn in to Parliament

英国新首相人选热门人选宣誓就职于议会

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2026-06-23

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As British Prime Ministerial hopeful Andy Burnham is sworn in as a Member of Parliament, we ask one of his supporters in the government when she decided Keir Starmer should go. Also in the programme: Former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan dies aged 100; and we hear about the "ballista spider" that sets an elasticated trap is discovered in the Australian rainforest. Photo: Andy Burnham is sworn in as a Member of Parliament in London, UK. Credit: HOUSE OF COMMONS HANDOUT/EPA/Shutterstock
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  • It was first said 100 years ago, and it was said about bankruptcy,

  • that it happens in two ways, gradually and then suddenly.

  • And so it's just proved the political career of Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

  • The pressure had been building and building.

  • As recently as Friday he'd been insisting that he wasn't, in his words, going to walk away.

  • Today he did just that.

  • At about 9.30 in the morning, London time,

  • the man who only two years ago had led the Labour Party to one of its relatively rare election victories

  • and one with a huge parliamentary majority, said that his time in office was over.