What Canada’s political class should take from Andy’s ascension and Keir’s collapse

What does it mean for Canada? Well, with one—or maybe two—referendums happening on our country's future, we should probably be taking pretty good notes, no?

Andy Burnham has been sworn in as the seventh prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 10 years is astonishing on its face. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY JAMIE CARROLL

July 27, 2026

What should Canada’s political class take from Andy’s ascension and Sir Keir’s collapse?

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