Trump has some advice for ‘extremely liberal’ Andy Burnham

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Donald Trump has some advice for seemingly incoming Andy Burnham that Sir Keir Starmer refused to heed.

Trump didn’t seem to know very much about the all but anointed Labour leader who was the mayor of Greater Manchester, with an estimated population of around 3 million.

Asked what he thought of Burnham, he said: ‘I don’t know, I think I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town.

Trump had made a parting shot at outgoing Sir Keir who he said had ‘two problems’ before naming three: immigration, North Sea oil and crime.

He added: ‘I gave Keir Starmer some pretty good advice. I said, open up the North Sea, go to Aberdeen, which was the hottest city of the whole continent.

‘It was the oil city of Europe, and they closed everything. It was terrible. I couldn’t believe it.

‘The North Sea is loaded, I have had every oil company come to see me “Sir, could you give us access to the UK? We would do anything to drill in the North Sea”.

‘The amazing thing is, they buy their oil from Norway, which gets the oil from the North Sea. Think of it, and they pay a big premium.

‘Norway’s got now two trillion dollars in the bank, and the UK is dying, so they should open up the North Sea, and it’s an easy one, and a lot of good things are going to happen.

Asked if he would want to be the first world leader for the new prime minister to visit globally, Trump said, ‘No, but I think we’re probably of a different persuasion.’