India, July 26 -- Britain has a replacement prime minister, but there hasn't been enough patience for another false start in the country. On July 20, Andy Burnham became the United Kingdom's seventh prime minister in a decade after Keir Starmer resigned. The high turnover has rendered political change routine, even if the problems confronting households have become difficult to ignore.

Now the former mayor of Greater Manchester heads both the Labour Party and the government. His first message was blunt: ease pressure on households, restore public trust, stop Westminster politics running amok. That's a reasonable agenda, but it also raises the bar. Voters have heard pledges of rebirth before.

The transfer of power was swift. The test of ...