The ex-Manchester mayor will become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade when he takes office on Monday
“People and places … have been waiting too long for politics to let them hope again … We’re going to give them hope back,” he vowed at a special party conference.
“I am for us, for all of us,” he told cheering delegates.
It is only four weeks since ex-Manchester mayor Burnham sensationally returned as a member of parliament following a nine-year absence, determined to replace Starmer.