The speed of the transfer of power in the UK always attracts attention on the world stage. On Thursday, July 4, there was Rishi Sunak in government; now there is Keir Starmer. And the new Prime Minister has already summoned his new ministers to issue 10 Downing Street on Friday, July 5.

Some smiled upon receiving their appointment, others seemed very nervous. On Saturday the 6th they held the first cabinet meeting to implement their election program.

The results of the recent UK election show that the public is placing great hope in this change. But what are the challenges and how will you address them?

Starmer's challenges are considerable. In his first meeting with the new cabinet of ministers he mentioned several. Here we will dwell on some of these challenges that he proposes to address immediately and others that may cause him problems in the medium term.

National Health System
A priority topic is the health care system (NHS). It was once a pioneering system that served as model for many countries. Indeed, for some Britons, public health is the symbol of the welfare state. But for some years now it has had increasingly serious problems, from the lack of qualified staff - in part exacerbated by Brexit - to the obesity pandemic, which generates more need for health services precisely in the poorest areas of the country.

Another challenge is immigration control, which ironically seems to have gone up tremendously since Brexit.

Keir Starmer has started by scrapping the dramatic option of sending people who have entered the UK illegally to Rwanda. But it is not clear what he is going to offer the one million (conservative estimate) people on status of illegality at present. That "suppressing criminal gangs bringing people in without permission" sounds good, but it won't be easy to put on internship.

Prison overcrowding
Thirdly, a goal that is very important staff for this human rights prosecutor with a lot of experience in the penal world is the state of the prisons, especially the overcrowding and the lack of training for the large number of young prisoners.

Starmer is personally convinced that too many young people are being incarcerated, which often leads them down a criminal path with tragic consequences for them and their families.

In the UK, trust in politicians has suffered badly in recent years, with Boris Johnson's "covid parties" and Liz Truss's disastrous 44-day tenure, which caused a loss to the country of £30 billion. Rishi Sunak has been able to do little to rescue his party's reputation.

Starmer seems to be the man of the hour: serious, patient and hardworking. He could do well. But he will also have to deal with a new civil service examination, not only what is left of the Conservative party, which will be quickly replenished, and nationalists of various sorts with their diverse claims, but also veteran brexiteer and tiktoker Nigel Farage.

With his new Reform UK party, Farage will know how to make a lot of media noise and capture an important sector of the population that feels let down by the effects of globalization and, precisely, by immigration and the social policies promoted by Labour.

Deputies without experience, but ministers with it
And if that were not enough, Starmer faces another difficulty. He has many MPs (412 out of 650 in the House of Commons), but the vast majority lack experience - the youngest is only 22 - and almost none have been in government before.

But Starmer has started by signing up experienced ministers from the Gordon Brown era under the express appointment system to the House of Lords. After the first cabinet meeting , the new prime minister seemed relaxed and cordial.

He may be a charisma-less prosecutor, as some think, but for many Brits that's better than the roller coaster ride of the Brexit years and the Boris Johnson circus.

Only time will tell if he has the necessary qualities to solve the problems that await him and fulfill the hopes of his electorate.

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original.