Trump brands Burnham as 'extremely liberal' in first comments on frontrunner to be next PM

Speaking after an Oval Office meeting with NATO chief Mark Rutte, the President branded Mr Burnham as "extremely liberal" when asked about what he knew of the former Manchester mayor. He told reporters: "I don't know anything. I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town. "I hear he's extremely liberal. Extremely. So that means he probably won't open up the North Sea". The Labour government's reluctance to drill for oil in the North Sea has been a common bugbear of Mr Trump's. He added: "You know, I gave Keir Starmer some pretty good advice. I said,...