UK PM Burnham seeks 'hope again' at Labour Party conference

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham , only in the role for a few months after replacing Keir Starmer , has told the Labour Party conference in his native Liverpool that his government wants to restore hope and end "politics as usual." But the UK 's seventh prime minister in a decade is trying to balance a series of evidently conflicting fiscal goals: bolstering economic growth, reducing cost-of-living pressures, safeguarding pensions and making care costs more affordable, upgrading creaking infrastructure and significantly boosting military spending. That's all while battling a populist challenge from Reform UK and Restore Britain on the right and the Green Party on the left.