downing street

Watch live: Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrives in Downing Street. I have just come from Buckingham Palace, where I have accepted His Majesty the King’s invitation to form a government. In doing so, I am acutely conscious that I am the sixth person in the last ten years to walk up this street, the seventh Prime Minister since 2016. Making this a moment for reflection and new resolution. It requires my generation of politicians to raise our game, and rise to the new challenge. Britain needs …

Watch my statement live from Downing Street Today I am here to offer my resignation and close the book on my time as Prime Minister. My work is done. In six and a half years, I took our party from a historic defeat in 2019, changed it so it was fit to face the country and won a landslide general election victory in 2024. Since then, it has been the privilege of my life to serve you and this great country as Prime Minister. I am confident that Britain is now stronger and fairer than it was two…

Sir William Birch was a giant of the National Party and delivered more for our country than he would ever take credit for. His close to 30 years in Parliament coincided with a period of significant reform as we modernised our economy and grappled with who we are as a country. Throughout, Sir William maintained his legendary diligence and work ethic, knowing that the sacrifices of public life were worth it to leave a better country for future generations. On behalf of the Government and the Nat…

I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respect to elders past, present and emerging. It’s great to be back at Sydney University, a place that holds so many fond memories. When I was studying economics here in the 1980s, the world was being taught the meaning of economic rationalism. Thatcherism in Britain, Reaganomics in the United States. Yet here in Australia we were making a different choice and moving in a different direction. Because w…