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Evening Standard
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Politics
George Lithgow

Donald Trump on Andy Burnham: ‘I hear he’s extremely liberal, extremely’

President Donald Trump meets with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) - (AP)

Andy Burnham is “extremely liberal”, Donald Trump has said in his first public comments about the former Greater Manchester mayor since he emerged as the frontrunner to replace Sir Keir Starmer.

The US president told reporters Mr Burnham “probably won’t open up the North Sea” for oil exploration, and that “the UK is dying”, signalling that the Labour MP could be facing a rocky relationship with Mr Trump.

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