Burnham’s Britain: what kind of country has the UK’s new prime minister inherited?

By Ben Wellings, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University

When Andy Burnham is handed the keys to 10 Downing Street on Monday, the United Kingdom will have its seventh prime minister in the ten years since it voted to leave the European Union.

It begs the question: what is it about the UK that makes governing it so difficult at this point in time?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, a large part of the answer is Brexit. But Brexit only expressed and exacerbated some of the structural problems the UK still faces today: cynicism, pessimism and political…

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