Burnham may bring fresh momentum, but the same party splits and elite agenda will grind him down, too Earlier this week Andy Burnham, the popular former mayor of Manchester, forced Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign as leader of the Labour Party in a meticulously planned and well executed bloodless political coup. As a result, Burnham is now poised to become, in a few weeks, Britain’s seventh prime minister in less than a decade. Burnham has been stalking Starmer for months. In January he