Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday promised to set out new measures to help with the cost of living this week before setting out a new 10-year plan for the country later this year.
– “Britain needs to show the world that we can regain our stability once again,” Burnham said in a speech outside 10 Downing Street.
– “We have not been good enough, and we need to be better.”
– Promising Britons “some breathing space now,” he said the government would set out some measures to tackle the high cost-of-living, and how it plans to fund them.
– Further out, he said: “We will help more young people into work by changing the education system and giving them more support, more mental health support, and we will build more council homes.”
– “That is the fair and sustainable way to bring the welfare bill down, to meet our fiscal rules, and to honor our commitments on defense to our international partners.”