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Nick Lester

Bankrupt Britain needs to tap into North Sea oil gold, says Donald Trump

The president says ‘any country with windmills is a loser’ (Alex Brandon/AP) - (AP)

Donald Trump has said he thinks he and Andy Burnham are “going to have a very good relationship” as he again stressed the need for the UK to tackle immigration and open up North Sea oil, claiming Britain was currently “a bankrupt country”.

The US president said the nation was “sitting on top of gold”, and that in a phone call on his first day in office the Prime Minister had “sounded terrific” on allowing the fossil fuel to be tapped.

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