The Prime Minister is dead, long live the Prime Minister! It will take the UK two months to replace the resigning Starmer with Andy Burnham, 56, the long-serving mayor of Greater Manchester, a ‘man of the North’ and therefore feared by the City, but also a politician who has worked with three very different Labour leaders: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Jeremy Corbyn, and who is suspected of being a smooth talker but remains a ‘chameleon’. However, the crisis runs deeper, caused by the hubris that led to the break with the European Union 10 years ago, by the rise in racist unrest, and by the uncertainty surrounding foreign policy. ...

Philippe Ward Ten years after the 2016 referendum and more than five years after leaving the single market, the United Kingdom resembles neither the Global Britain promised by Brexit enthusiasts nor the wasteland predicted by its most radical opponents. In April 2026, the country finds itself in a phase of uneasy normalization: a pragmatic yet difficult realignment with the European bloc, against a backdrop of economic slowdown and political fragmentation. ...