The Inbox for Britain’s New Leader

“Andy Burnham, if he succeeds in becoming Britain’s next prime minister, will face the same problems that beset outgoing leader Keir Starmer: a stagnant economy, little wiggle room to borrow and spend, and a lot of angry voters who feel the country is in decline,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Burnham’s biggest challenge is to get Britain’s economy growing faster. In the past 20 years, the average British household’s real income has barely budged, and is about 25% smaller than it would have been had growth rates matched what they were from the 1980s to 2007.”