Andy Burnham takes helm of Britain's Labour Party clearing the path to be next prime minister

Andy Burnham was officially declared head of Britain's governing Labour Party on Friday, clearing a final hurdle before King Charles III asks him on Monday to become prime minister, replacing outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer. 

In his remarks to a special Labour Party conference in London, Burnham pledged to repair "an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people" and said he'd have the "courage to fix the big things that politics has neglected." 

Burnham offered few details on how he'd confront the problems he'll face as prime minister, the New York Times reported, but said he'd be a pro-business prime minister. 

He also said his government would be a "distinctively Labour" one and would avoid the infighting that has weighed down the party in the past.