The man who could be Britain's next prime minister now has a problem, and his name is Donald Trump. The US president branded Andy Burnham 'extremely liberal' on Wednesday, 24 June, warned he 'won't open up the North Sea,' and declared that 'the UK is dying.' It was the first shot in what could become the most turbulent chapter in UK-US relations in a generation.
But here's the twist: Trump may have just given Burnham an unexpected boost. On the British left, being called 'extremely liberal' by the US president is less an insult than an invitation. Burnham hasn't even formally launched his leadership campaign yet, and Trump has already handed him his best campaign poster.
