Andy Burnham reveals plan for Donald Trump as ‘special relationship’ on the brink.VA
Tensions beteen Donald Trump and Keir Starmer have been soaring over recent months.
Andy Burnham was branded ‘extremely liberal’ by Donald Trump (Image: Getty)
Andy Burnham has revealed his plans for Donald Trump with the UK-US “special relationship” now teetering on the brink. Speaking on Gary Lineker’s podcast, the incoming Prime Minister and former Mayor of Greater Manchester said he remained optimistic about being able to handle the US President.
However, Mr Burnham said Mr Trump’s description of him as “a mayor of a town” may have caused some backlash. He said: “I’ll just meet him where he’s at. I like to think I’ve got some personality myself, and I’ll deal with him very upfront in the same way. I think he likes people to deal with him.” Mr Burnham continued: “He described Manchester as some town when he was referring to my position. You know what Mancs are like, Gary, that won’t have gone down fantastically well in the city I used to represent.
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Mr Burnham spoke of his relationship with Mr Trump. (Image: Getty)
“But it’s about being yourself, isn’t it? It’s about respecting the office, the UK-US relationship. But where you disagree, do it in a way that is kind of meeting him where he’s at.”
This comes after the US President referred to the presumed next Prime Minister as “extremely liberal” and urged him to adopt a different energy policy from Sir Keir Starmer.
He called on Mr Burnham to start taking oil from the North Sea as he once again slammed Sir Keir for not giving him enough support in the Iran war.
Asked what he thought of the incoming PM, Mr Trump called him “extremely liberal”. He said: “I don’t know, I think I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town.
Tension between Starmer and Trump have been simmering for several months (Image: GETTY)
“I gave Keir Starmer some pretty good advice. I said, open up the North Sea, go to Aberdeen, which was the hottest city of the whole continent. It was the oil city of Europe, and they closed everything. It was terrible. I couldn’t believe it.
“The North Sea is loaded, I have had every oil company come to see me ‘Sir, could you give us access to the UK? We would do anything to drill in the North Sea’.
“The amazing thing is, they buy their oil from Norway, which gets the oil from the North Sea. Think of it, and they pay a big premium.
“Norway’s got now two trillion dollars in the bank, and the UK is dying, so they should open up the North Sea, and it’s an easy one, and a lot of good things are going to happen. It’s among the greatest deals in the world.”
