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- Prime Minister Burnham is sworn in at Downing Street over a Bible, becoming the UK’s first Catholic premier.
- Burnham was born in Liverpool in 1970 and raised in Culcheth, Cheshire.
- He joined the Labour Party at age 14 after being moved by the BBC drama Boys from the Blackstuff.
- His mother will wear rosary beads for his premiership, while his father Roy cannot know due to dementia.
