UK’s Burnham would call out Trump if in Britain’s interest

BENGALURU : New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham “will always put Britain’s interests first”, he told the BBC when asked in an interview, parts of which were released on Sunday, whether he was willing to call out US President Donald Trump. Burnham’s predecessor Keir Starmer, who announced he was stepping down last month, had a fraught relationship with Trump, who criticised him due to differences over the US-Israeli ⁠war on Iran, immigration, energy and tech regulation.

While Trump initially described Starmer’s successor as “extremely liberal”, he said this week he had a “very good conversation” with Burnham, who became Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday.

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