Editorial: The next UK prime minister must make foreign policy a central priority from the start

To take office without clear priorities or a sense of how to drive an agenda through the machinery of government is a recipe for drift and loss of control, bouncing from one crisis

Sir Keir Starmer had years in opposition to prepare for government. His likely successor, Andy Burnham, has weeks.

But as every veteran of No 10 attests, the pressures in that building – the intensity and unpredictability of events – are like nothing else.