Donald Trump has described Andy Burnham as “extraordinarily liberal” as he set himself on a collision course with the incoming prime minister.
The US president mentioned he believed Burnham “most likely gained’t open up the North Sea” for recent exploration when he enters No.10.
He additionally dismissed the brand new PM as “the mayor of a city”, a reference to his earlier job in Higher Manchester.
His feedback, the primary because it turned clear that Burnham will exchange Keir Starmer, counsel relations between the British and American governments are unlikely to enhance any time quickly.
Regardless of initially showing to strike up a very good working relationship, Trump and Starmer ultimately ended up at loggerheads over the warfare in Iran.
Requested on the White Home on Wednesday what he knew about Burnham, Trump mentioned: “I don’t know, I feel I see that he was, I assume, the mayor of a city.
“I hear he’s extraordinarily liberal, extraordinarily, so meaning he most likely gained’t open up the North Sea.
“I gave Keir Starmer some fairly good recommendation. I mentioned, open up the North Sea, go to Aberdeen, which was the most popular metropolis of the entire continent.
“It was the oil metropolis of Europe, they usually closed every thing. It was horrible. I couldn’t consider it.
“The North Sea is loaded. I’ve had each oil firm come to see me ‘Sir. may you give us entry to the UK? We might do something to drill within the North Sea’.
“The wonderful factor is, they purchase their oil from Norway, which will get the oil from the North Sea. Consider it, they usually pay an enormous premium.
“Norway’s obtained now two trillion {dollars} within the financial institution, and the UK is dying, so they need to open up the North Sea, and it’s a straightforward one, and loads of good issues are going to occur. It’s among the many biggest offers on the planet.”
Throughout the Makerfield by-election, Burnham warned that Britain was heading for what he described because the “polarised, toxic politics” of America.
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