Labour's Keir Starmer will have to face problems such as boosting a sluggish economy, fixing a broken health care system, and restoring trust in the country's government.
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00:00In his first full day as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer said he has already discussed the war in Ukraine with world leaders.
00:09At a press conference, he also announced plans to attend a NATO summit in Washington next week.
00:16I've already had a number of international calls, as you will know and as you would have expected,
00:24to establish the relations across with other countries, to have really important discussions about Ukraine and other pressing issues,
00:36and Washington will be an opportunity for me to have further discussions with some of the leaders I've already spoken to and some that I'm due to speak to.
00:44One of Starmer's first moves in power was to scrap the controversial Conservative policy to depart asylum seekers to Rwanda.
00:51His Labour Party delivered the biggest blow to the Conservatives in their two-century history in a landslide victory built on a platform of change.