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Donald Trump has branded Andy Burnham an “extreme liberal” in his first comments about the man expected to be Britain’s next prime minister.
Speaking at the White House on Wednesday night, the US president said the pair were “probably of different persuasion”.
Mr Trump was asked if he wanted to be the first person on the new British prime minister’s list to visit London, but he said “no”.
He added: “I think we have a different belief. He’s very liberal but you know I get on well with Starmer. I didn’t agree with Starmer…”
Asked at the White House what he knew about Mr Burnham, Mr Trump said: “I don’t know, I think I see he’s the mayor of a town.
He repeated comments that the former Greater Manchester mayor was “too liberal”.
The US president added: “That means it probably won’t open the North Sea.”
He later told reporters he had told Sir Keir to extract oil from a “full” basin in “dying” Britain.
The so-called leader of the free world said: “I gave Keir Starmer some pretty good advice. I said open the North Sea, go to the North Sea.” AberdeenIt was the hottest city on the entire continent.
“It was the oil city of Europe and they closed everything down. It was terrible. I couldn’t believe it.”
“The North Sea is full. I had all the oil companies coming to see me. ‘Sir, can you give us access to the UK? We’ll do anything to drill in the North Sea.’
“The interesting thing is that they buy their oil from Norway, which gets it from the North Sea. Think about it, and they pay a huge premium.”
“Norway has two trillion dollars in the bank now and the UK is dying, so they should open up the North Sea and it’ll be an easy job and a lot of good things will happen. It’s one of the biggest deals in the world.”
Mr Trump also spoke of his disappointment with Britain’s response to the Iran conflict, but noted Sir Keir was “gone now”.
The President has repeatedly criticized the Prime Minister for his energy policy and his failure to allow more oil drilling in the North Sea while allowing wind turbines.
