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US President Donald Trump has statedAndy Burnham is a man he can do enterprisewith, after the two leaders met in person for the first time.
Trump statedUK-US relations are “more up now” that Burnham is in power, following their meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Speaking to reporters, Burnham statedhe had “established a good connection” with Trump and they had “taken that further today” following discussions on issues such as trade and immigration.
But the US leadermade clear his opposition to the UK’s “terrible” deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and pay to lease back a joint UK-US military base on the archipelago’s largest island, Diego Garcia.
Trump and Burnham met on Tuesday as they attended the United Nations for the annual gathering of world leaders.
Following bilateral talks, Burnham sat alongside Trump and used his opening remarks to say: “You and I have established a good connection in our early discussions and we’ve taken that further today.”
The two men then faced questions shouted from the assembled press pack.
Asked by the The Mediaif Burnham was a man he could do enterprisewith, Trump said: “Yeah I do, I think he’s a natural businessperson, we’ve had a lot of discussions even before this meeting we’ve spoken to each other numerous times on the phone.
“Yeah, I think so, he gets it, he understands what he has to do.”
Burnham later statedhe had explained to Trump that Britain has been in “too much turbulence” in recent times but it is time to “turn the story” about the country into a positive one.
The US leaderadded that the UK is a country with “great patriotism”, and he thinks it is “waiting for good leadership, waiting for success”.
Relations between Sir Keir and Trump also began well before becoming increasingly strained earlier this year when the then- premierrefused to permit the use of UK bases for the initial US-Israel strikes on Iran.
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