Welcome to Monday’s Washington Secrets, where the big question is how will we get through the next four years waiting for the next World Cup. In the meantime, we run the rule over Britain’s new prime minister, and suggest that he is already in good shape to manage the relationship between London and Washington. Plus, why Rep. Russell Fry’s Senate campaign will need a new outside consultant (preferably ones who aren’t pedophiles). And some World Cup odds and ends.

Andy Burnham may be Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade, but he faces a diplomatic dilemma familiar to most of his predecessors: managing the relationship with a prickly, unpredictable American president.