This was a massive mistake in my opinion. He should have fought on and tried to get back support from various ministers.

I seriously don't understand how changing the leader can fix deep rooted structural problems. No new party, no new leader can or will fix things overnight.

I don't know why people in the UK are so simple-minded.

One thing I hope Burnham does immediately is make building things and development much easier like in Manchester.

He made a few mistakes but hardly any more than previous PMs. Burnham doesn't seem to have any grand new plans, it's just business as usual. Three months and his approval is going to be just as bad - if they wanted to ditch the leader they should've done it much closer to an election. It also seems very undemocratic to parachute in a guy who wasn't even an MP to win a safe election so that he could just be handed the leadership with no vote from the parties.

I think this is just going to keep happening as long as the British electorate continue to simultaneously demand massive welfare hikes, more funding for public services and lower taxes all at once. It's just not a rich enough country to afford it all, and it only seems to be stagnating more.

Keir along with Theresa May and John Major were true bureaucrats but they all had no real charisma.

Sadly charisma is valued more by voters than other qualities of the political leader of a country.

So to summarise he mentions his family, antisemitism and that's it...

Maybe Moises Naim's End of Power thesis was right. More complex things get Power becomes easier to acquire, harder to use, easier to loose.

AGI has been achieved internally in the UK government.

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