Trump Calls Likely Next UK Leader Burnham ‘Extremely Liberal’

Donald Trump has branded Andy Burnham "extremley liberal" in his first comments about the man expected to be the UK's next prime minister.

The US president was asked by a reporter on Wednesday about what he knew about Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester who is poised to succeed Keir Starmer in Britain’s latest leadership shake-up.

President Donald Trump said he knows little about Andy Burnham, Britain’s expected next prime minister, describing him as a “mayor of a town” who was “extremely liberal,” and someone who probably wouldn’t open the North Sea to more oil drilling.

Burnham has been critical of Trump in the past, describing American politics as “polarised” and “poisonous” while on the campaigning trail in Makerfield this month.