Published on 17/07/2026 – 10:08 GMT+2•Updated 10:25 Andy Burnham is set to be announced as the Labour Party’s new leader on Friday. The Makerfield MP is scheduled to be unveiled at a special press conference before taking over as the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday. Burnham is expected to deliver a speech during the conference where he will reportedly pledge to be “unashamedly Labour” and vow that his government will have the “courage to fix the big things that politics has neglected.” Burnham was left with a clear path to Downing Street after his last potential…