Burnham confirmed as Labour leader, one step from becoming UK prime minister

Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester nicknamed the “King of the North”, was elected leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party on Friday, the final step before he becomes the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade.

At a special conference on Friday, Burnham said he was ready for power and would work to offer hope to people in “forgotten places everywhere”. “We are united and we put the power that comes from that unity at the service of people,” he told a room of Labour...