New Delhi, July 21 -- UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday (local time) took over as the country's latest premier after his predecessor, Keir Starmer, was made to step down last month.

Burnham, who became the UK's seventh prime minister in a decade, was formally asked by King Charles III to form a government at Buckingham Palace earlier on Monday, which the former confirmed he had accepted.

In his first speech on Monday, the new UK premier said, "We will make this moment a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward a new political model and a new economic model." He added, "[We will] build a new economy where we put life's essentials back under stronger public control to make them affordable again, reindustrializing Britain using...