Britain has become addicted to pressing the ‘new PM’ button – and I don’t see how Burnham avoids it | Jonathan Liew

He’s almost certain to become the UK’s seventh leader in a decade. And with the rightwing press and the algorithm against him, he’s basically a meat sacrifice Current state of British democracy: the guy who puts out the resignation lectern in front of No 10 is now so familiar that he has become a meme. On the internet, they call him Hot Podium Guy . William Hague’s old line about the Tory party being “an autocracy moderated by regicide” is now basically true of the country as a whole. And so out Keir Starmer strides to give a speech that, in the grand tradition of Starmer oratory, occupies the

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