Andy Burnham, de facto Labour leader, will be 'premier' on July 20

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Andy Burnham, the king of Northern England , will be crowned leader of the Labour Party on July 17 and, three days later, on the 20th, will become the seventh Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a decade . The former mayor of Manchester, MP for the Makerfield constituency , in North West England, formalized his candidacy for leadership of the party this Thursday to fill the vacancy left by Keir Starmer. "I have just submitted my nomination to lead the Labour Party," he wrote on X, admitting that the process "is starting to feel very real." The Premier Starmer announced his resignation on June 22, a victim of his own mistakes and pressure from his MPs due to poor electoral expectations .