On Monday, former Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham is officially stepping into office as British prime minister after public pressure forced Keir Starmer to resign from the post. The change comes at a time when the governing Labour Party is experiencing a massive slump in support.

Burnham has promised to take the party and the government on a new path that focuses on re-establishing internal unity and addressing the hardships of working-class Brits.

One of the main issues that has torn Labour apart for over a decade has been Palestine. On July 9, before his confirmation as the new prime minister, Burnham decided to address the issue in a video posted on social media, saying Labour “didn’t get it right” and needs to “do better” on Gaza.

So will he indeed “do better” on Palestine and everything else that Labour has gotten wrong over the past decade? Unlikely. That is because complicity in Israel’s genocide is deeply entrenched in the British political infrastructure. It requires radical change – something which Burnham is not offering.

Burnham’s political career began with his election as a member of parliament for Leigh in Greater Manchester in 2001. He went on to serve as parliamentary private secretary to then-Home Secretary David Blunkett, before taking on several ministerial posts.

Between 2017 and mid-June this year, he was mayor of........

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