New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is now looking to Anthony Albanese for tips on how to govern, just as the Australian Labor Party should learn from the Brits how to change a leader without bloodshed.

The new 10 Downing Street crew are looking to do a massive strategy workshop Down Under to understand the secrets to political longevity.

This isn’t a comedy routine from Britain’s Got Talent, but rather a sign of how out of ideas British Labour must be and how little those beyond our borders understand just how disliked Labor and Albanese have become.

Today’s polls show a Government wallowing in Gillard-level depths. A party that apparently needs another two weeks to announce a One Nation-style immigration policy and an upcoming parliamentary session where many of the recent Budget measures will be repealed.

Labor under Albanese is in all sorts. A daily diet of proverbial sandwiches with no sauce.

You have Treasurer Jim Chalmers now loathed by backbench MPs who agree with their constituents that he went too far with Budget changes, while his Widow Tax is no more thanks to Senator David Pocock.

Tony Burke had to cancel his National Press Club speech as the party scrambled to figure out what its migration policy actually is.

Meanwhile, the cosy sweetheart deal enjoyed by online gambling companies appears to be unravelling as the Greens and the Liberals combine for common sense.

First Nations leaders at Garma got the cold shoulder from Albo, who prioritised his holidays instead of potentially awkward questions about his commitment to ”Voice, Truth and Treaty’”.

Rounding out the show is Julie Collins, Albanese’s Minister for Bird Flu. Emus and kookaburras are in for very rough time as the disease continues to spread across the continent.

It’s been a total cluster while Albo has been taking a well earned holiday.

Beyond these immediate problems, Albanese continues to lead a Government that only has plans to tax more rather than spend less.

There is so much for Burnham to learn about how to govern from his antipodean comrades.

He could also learn how Albanese’s Labor Government has single-handedly managed to crater the wealth of a significant portion of Australians as their biggest asset, their own home, is now losing daily value as its crunched by interest rate rises and massive tax uncertainty.

The interest rate rises that started before the Iran War as a response to domestic inflationary pressures, have been driven by a Government with no plan for productivity or economic growth.

Growing the headcount of public servants might be great politics, but it isn’t a proxy for an economic growth plan for our nation.

Still, UK Labour have scoured the social democratic world and found a Government that goes to an election as small target only to govern by telling big lies.

A PM whose sense of responsibility begins and ends with “Deny, didn’t say that and deny again”.

Albanese and Burnham have plenty in common. Albo has an ale named after him in Marrickville, while Burnham likes an ale at his local in Manchester. Burnham wears a black skivvy and Buddy Holly glasses to connect with younger voters while DJ Albo spins records.

Both have massive majorities and engage in performative politics rather Labor reforms.

Both will make policy changes in government without asking voters for a mandate.

The difference is Burnham rolled a do-nothing PM with a thumping parliamentary majority who had lost control of the cost of living and immigration. Sound familiar?

It was ultimately an inability to tackle the cost of living and be seen to keep Britain’s borders secure that cost Sir Keir Starmer his prime ministership.

Albanese by contrast still has a totally compliant caucus and a party in his enthral.

Burnham was a very popular outsider the party drafted over internal options already within the Parliament.

Perhaps in that there is something the ALP can learn from their UK counterparts.

Chalmers has had a shocker of a Budget and now looks tarnished, his reputation among backbenchers in tatters as the “Budget Australia had to have” unravels in the Senate.

Burke, the Minister for ISIS Brides who still harbours ambitions to be PM, has completely bungled Labor’s migration response to One Nation.

Only Health Minister Mark Butler continues as a strong Labor reformer among current senior leadership alternatives.

Albanese’s decline is happening too quickly for either up and comer Andrew Charlton or Housing Minister Clare O’Neil to be considered, yet both are clear future leaders in the making.

The Burnham lesson for Labor might be the need to find a strongly popular outsider.

Labor has premiers Chris Minns and Peter Malinauskas already incredibly well credentialed. SA Premier Malinauskas gave what was clearly a nationally-focused speech at the party’s recent Adelaide conference and, like Minns in NSW, governs from the centre of the political spectrum.

Burnham’s team will send their delegation to Australia to understand how under Albanese, governance has been replaced with time based milestones: longest period without a leadership challenge, only recent PM to be re-elected.

The harder heads in the ALP would do well to understand how to replace a leader who has a huge majority yet has lost control of the cost of living and can’t control the nation’s borders.

Burnham’s team might want to learn from five do-nothing years of Albo, but the ALP has a lot to learn from the Burnham method.

Cameron Milner is a former Queensland Labor State secretary