The United Kingdom has a new messiah. One more or a real one? Or perhaps just another politician, naive enough, who believes he can change the system and not the other way around? Questions that, for now, have no answer. In any case, the man is called Andy Burnham and in all probability will become prime minister in just under three weeks, following the resignation announcement of Keir Starmer a week ago.

Good news for British Labourism and, at the same time, bad news for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and also for the ultra Nigel Farage. The incontestable victory in the Makerfield constituency by Andy Burnham in the by-election to the House of Commons held this Thursday opens a new phase in the party's crisis, and positions the Mayor of Manchester as the main contender to succeed Starmer in Downing Street. Burnham obtained 54.8% of the votes (24,927 ballots), very comfortably defeating the Reform Party candidate, Robert Kenyon (15,696). After almost a decade focused on local politics, the so-called King of the North will be able to return to Westminster, where he already tried to seize the party's reins after the electoral defeat of 2010.

The streets of Ashton‑in‑Makerfield and Hindley, the two main towns in the Makerfield constituency in northwest England, still echo a past that no longer exists. Their inhabitants would like to regain the security of a mine closed decades ago or the stability provided by the wages of a factory now reduced to ruins. Instead, they are faced with logistics centers, service companies, healthcare and elderly care providers, and zero-hour contracts that do not guarantee a single work shift.

Blunt politics for all to see and gossip that functions as footnotes. After 117 days of review, the British government released on Monday the second installment of the Mandelson files: 1,504 pages of documents regarding Peter Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the United States. Although there is no explosive revelation directly implicating Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a designation already controversial due to Mandelson's known ties to confessed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the files offer an unusual snapshot of the inner workings of the Labour government.

Change of political cycle in the United Kingdom after fourteen years of Conservative governments. Keir Starmer's Labour Party has achieved a resounding victory in Thursday's general election. With the results from two constituencies still to be announced, Labour has secured 412 seats, which comfortably surpasses the threshold for an absolute majority, set at 326. The party led by Starmer since spring 2020 has thus brought about a spectacular turnaround in the figures from the last election, held in 2019 (202 MPs), at the peak of Boris Johnson's popularity. Starmer has thus brought about a spectacular turnaround in the figures from the last election, held in 2019 (202 MPs), at the peak of Boris Johnson's popularity.

No time to lose. The transfer of power in the United Kingdom is immediate. At five in the morning this Friday, the Labour Party managed to surpass the threshold of an absolute majority (326 seats; it has obtained 412, with the result of two constituencies yet to be known), and seven and a half hours later, Keir Starmer, accompanied by his wife, Victoria, entered Downing Street after having received the commission from King Charles III to form a new executive, and having thus become the 58th premier in the country's history.

The Brexit wound continues to bleed the British Labour Party, and by extension, the United Kingdom. The crisis that opened up in Keir Starmer's government last week following the electoral catastrophe of May 7 –and the growing internal pressure to oust him– has once again placed membership of the European Union at the center of the debate, as the tenth anniversary of the referendum approaches on June 23.

British politics has been advancing for decades like a Shakespearean comedy of errors: the characters change, but the pattern repeats. Long before the Brexit referendum, a decade ago, Westminster was already chaining cycles of confusion, miscalculated maneuvers, and governments trapped in their own mistakes. From 1974 – with two general elections, the fall of the conservative government, the winter of discontent, and unions at war – to parliaments without an absolute majority in the 21st century, passing through the illegal suspension of Parliament in 2019, the British system has shown a recurring fragility that contrasts with an image of impeccable solidity. The resignation announcement made this Monday by Keir Starmer, when he has not yet been in government for two years, once again highlights this.

has been very clear. At this point, then, it is very difficult to say if the revolt of the According to various British press reports, the head of the Interior Ministry, Shabana Mahmood, and the Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, have made it clear in recent hours that sustaining his leadership is impossible. The Justice Minister and number two in the executive, David Lammy, and the Defence Minister, John Healey, would also have spoken about his future. But the prime minister has been very clear. At this point, then, it is very difficult to say if the revolt of the backbench MPs will succeed.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer woke up this Friday morning with a new headacheAnother factor will put more pressure on an already weakened leadership. Overtaken by the Green Party, Labour suffered a catastrophic result in the by-election held this Thursday in the Gorton and Denton district, a traditional Labour stronghold in south Manchester. Two years ago, in the July 2024 elections, he Labour She achieved 50.8% of the vote. Yesterday, she plummeted to exactly half that: 25.4%, relegating her to third place, even behind Nigel Farage's Reform Party.

The Epstein bomb has erupted with full force in the face of Keir Starmer's Labour government. The publication, last Friday, of more than three million documents from the pedophile A US Department of Justice investigation has revealed that Peter Mandelson, a member of the House of Lords and until last September the British ambassador to Washington, shared confidential government information with the confessed pedophile in 2009. This occurred during his time as Gordon Brown's Minister of Business, and de facto, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The political scandal in the United Kingdom is enormous and the damage to the premier It comes at a time of great political weakness.

Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan (Cardiff, 1967) speaks to ARA during her visit to Catalonia this week to finalize a cooperation agreement. A member of the Labour Party, she is the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of this historic nation and faces elections in May.

On September 7, returning from a flying visit to Edinburgh, this correspondent stopped for refreshments at Darlington, a market town –historical category that designates populations with the right to hold a weekly market, but which cannot be called city, Despite its current population of 110,000, it is located in County Durham, in the north of England, 56 km south of Newcastle. London is a long way off, but the impact of the resignation of the deputy prime minister for failing to pay the taxes she should have paid is still noticeable.

Unmitigated humiliation for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The week that was supposed to mark the first anniversary of Labour's return to Downing Street –It is fulfilled this Friday–, has been the week in which the power of the premier was practically reduced to ashes and in which he was accused of making "Dickensian cuts" to social benefits for the most vulnerable. In a severe blow to his moral authority and to the legitimacy of the party leadership, Starmer saw this Tuesday night the passage of the bill reforming the Individual Contributions for the Disabled (known as welfare bill) has been practically decapitated at its core by an internal revolt of unprecedented proportions, which has forced the government to bow to the rebels' force with last-minute concessions minutes before the vote. who have spoken out against.

On June 16, during the G-7 summit in Canada, Donald Trump and Keir Starmer appeared before the media to let the world know they had signed a trade agreement, albeit a small one. And while they were doing so, the US president got caught short. Quickly, the premier British bent down to pick them up.

Almost a year after the victory Labour in the UK general election, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's popularity is plummeting. And that of the populist and xenophobic Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party –the same politician who did not rest until to provoke a divorce with the European Union nine years ago, it's been through the roof. So much so that, in recent days, various polls have given it a good chance of becoming one. premier. Or at least win the elections if they were held tomorrow and not in the summer of 2029, when they are scheduled to be called.