US President Donald Trump has said Andy Burnham is simply a antheral helium tin bash concern with, aft the 2 leaders met successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal time.
Trump said UK-US relations are "more up now" that Burnham is successful power, pursuing their gathering connected the sidelines of the UN General Assembly successful New York.
Speaking to reporters, Burnham said helium had "established a bully connection" with Trump and they had "taken that further today" pursuing discussions connected issues specified arsenic commercialized and immigration.
But the US president made wide his absorption to the UK's "terrible" woody to manus implicit the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and wage to lease backmost a associated UK-US subject basal connected the archipelago's largest island, Diego Garcia.
Burnham, asked by broadcasters if the woody is "dead", aboriginal said the UK volition "work hard" to find a solution betwixt the antithetic sides and helium is "confident we tin find it moving with our US partners".
Trump and Burnham met connected Tuesday arsenic they attended the United Nations for the yearly gathering of satellite leaders.
Following bilateral talks, Burnham sat alongside Trump and utilized his opening remarks to say: "You and I person established a bully transportation successful our aboriginal discussions and we've taken that further today."
The 2 men past faced questions shouted from the assembled property pack.
Asked by the BBC if Burnham was a antheral helium could bash concern with, Trump said: "Yeah I do, I deliberation he's a earthy businessperson, we've had a batch of discussions adjacent earlier this gathering we've spoken to each different galore times connected the phone.
"Yeah, I deliberation so, helium gets it, helium understands what helium has to do."
Burnham aboriginal said helium had explained to Trump that Britain has been successful "too overmuch turbulence" successful caller times but it is clip to "turn the story" astir the state into a affirmative one.
The US president added that the UK is simply a state with "great patriotism", and helium thinks it is "waiting for bully leadership, waiting for success".
Relations betwixt Sir Keir and Trump besides began good earlier becoming increasingly strained earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile the then-prime curate refused to licence the usage of UK bases for the archetypal US-Israel strikes connected Iran.
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