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If, as expected, Andy Burnham becomes the British prime minister later this month, one of his first telephone calls is likely to be with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s mother was Scottish and he has a nostalgic fascination with Britain. But managing a relationship with the erratic, transactional and demanding US president has been a diplomatic minefield for Burnham\u2019s predecessors.<\/p>\n
When Trump returned to power in January 2025, the current prime minister, Keir Starmer, pulled out all the stops to burnish the special relationship, inviting the president to an \u201cunprecedented\u201d second state visit to the UK during an all-smiles photocall at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
But their early bond soon soured over Trump\u2019s threats to Greenland, denigration of British troops in Afghanistan and perception that Britain failed to support its war in Iran. \u201cThis is not Winston Churchill that we\u2019re dealing with\u201d became Trump\u2019s go-to insult. And now, with Starmer having announced his resignation, Trump will encounter his fourth British prime minister in his five-and-a-half years in the White House.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Keir Starmer picks up UK-US trade deal papers dropped by Donald Trump before a press conference at the June 2025 G7 summit in Alberta, Canada.<\/span> Photograph: Stefan Rousseau\/PA<\/p>\n Like most Americans, the US president appears to have never heard of Burnham, who was until recently the mayor of Greater Manchester, a region of 3 million people in north-west England where he has become known as the \u201cking of the north\u201d.<\/p>\n Asked recently what he knew about the incoming prime minister, Trump replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know, I think I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town. I hear he\u2019s extremely liberal, extremely, so that means he probably won\u2019t open up the North Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n Burnham has held high office \u2013 heading up two big government departments under the Brown government in 2008 and 2009 \u2013 but the world has changed dramatically since then.<\/p>\n Burnham has previously warned about the \u201cpoisonous\u201d nature of US-style politics and said Trump had brought \u201cinstability\u201d to the world. Two weeks ago, in his victory speech after winning the election that set him on course for Downing Street, Burnham urged British voters to turn away from the path that \u201ctakes us to a divided, dark politics of the kind we see in the United States\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/span>Keir Starmer and Donald Trump hold a press conference at Chequers, the UK prime minister\u2019s \u2018grace and favour\u2019 country house, during Trump\u2019s second state visit to the UK in September 2025.<\/span> Photograph: Leon Neal\/PA<\/p>\n How will he handle this erratic and transactional new era of transatlantic relations? Will he go on the charm offensive and play to the president\u2019s ego? How will he respond if \u2013 or more likely when \u2013 Trump goes on the attack on social media? Can the special relationship be resurrected, or does the bond between presidents and prime ministers even matter any more?<\/p>\n In Washington, longtime watchers of the alliance do not expect a new face to make any difference. Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, warned: \u201cPrime Minister Andy Burnham will be treated like other British prime ministers by Donald Trump. The special relationship has been replaced by the abusive relationship.<\/p>\n \u201cHe shouldn\u2019t take it personally. Keir Starmer was treated abusively but so was Theresa May. Trump has very low esteem for British prime ministers and extreme deference to the King of England. Trump wishes to be seen as royalty and his idea of an equivalent is a king, not a prime minister.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>Donald Trump and King Charles III at a state banquet at Windsor Castle during Trump\u2019s second state visit.<\/span> Photograph: WPA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Burnham has near zero name-recognition in the US \u2013 but political strategists and foreign policy experts agreed this clean slate could be an asset.<\/p>\n Frank Luntz, a consultant and pollster who spends significant time in Britain, said: \u201cThey\u2019ll probably think he\u2019s a football star. No one in America is going to know who he is. But that\u2019s an opportunity to start afresh.\u201d<\/p>\n Larry Jacobs<\/a>, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, added: \u201cBurnham is as unknown a high-level British politician as we\u2019ve seen in decades. From the man in the street to most people in Congress, he is a nobody.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a regional politician. He\u2019s attracted attention from politicians who are, frankly, desperate to move on from Starmer, so this is not someone who\u2019s established a reputation on the international level, who\u2019s made important statements about domestic policy that would have travelled across the Atlantic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span>A victorious Andy Burnham at June\u2019s byelection in Makerfield, Greater Manchester, flanked by two of the joke candidates who also stood. The win enabled Burnham to declare his candidacy for prime minister.<\/span> Photograph: Oli Scarff\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n As the mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017, Burnham is out of practice when it comes to walking the tightrope of international diplomacy. For the past decade, his main opponents have been London\u2019s obdurate civil servants and sometimes parochial town hall leaders in his corner of north-west England.<\/p>\n Nina Sawetz, a communications adviser who worked with Burnham\u2019s mayoral team, said the incoming prime minister\u2019s instinctive reaction to any Trump provocation would be to focus on \u201coutcomes and interests for the UK, rather than compete on personalities\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cMy expectation is that Trump will initially interpret Burnham\u2019s refusal to engage in a running public battle as a sign that he has the upper hand. I think that would be a misreading,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n \u201cThe greater opportunity for the president lies in Burnham\u2019s tendency to wear his frustrations on his sleeve more than many political leaders. That openness will reveal where the pressure points are, and I would expect Trump to test them repeatedly.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>Donald Trump with then prime minister Theresa May at Chequers in June 2018.<\/span> Photograph: Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n How to navigate the notoriously mercurial, thin-skinned and volatile Trump? Many foreign leaders have been desperate to avoid the fate of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, who was berated by Trump in the Oval Office last year.<\/p>\n Jacobs said: \u201cThe starting point for dealing with Trump is to accept you\u2019re dealing with an aberration, a highly unstable, erratic president who has very low self-esteem. If you do anything that kind of disrupts Trump\u2019s sense of himself, the relationship is over.<\/p>\n \u201cMy advice to Burnham would be treat Donald Trump like a constituent back home who is poorly informed and quite emotional. How would you deal with that person?\u201d<\/p>\n Burnham faces an uphill struggle since Trump has shown more interest in oil-rich Gulf Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar than traditional allies in his second term. For a Labour prime minister there are yawning policy gaps on every issue from climate and immigration to Iran and Nato.<\/p>\n <\/span>Boris Johnson with Donald Trump at the 2019 summit in Biarritz, France, a month after he became prime minister.<\/span> Photograph: Erin Schaff\/AP<\/p>\n But one intriguing blueprint is offered by another mayor: Zohran Mamdani of New York. A democratic socialist, he is ideologically opposed to Trump yet has got on well with the president, who appears to respect him as a charismatic populist \u2013 and a winner. Indeed, Trump consistently views diplomacy through a personal rather than policy lens.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter | Every weekday<\/p>\n Sign up to First Edition<\/span><\/p>\n Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what\u2019s happening and why it matters<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Philippe Dickinson<\/a>, deputy director of the transatlantic security initiative at the Atlantic Council thinktank in Washington, said: <\/strong>\u201cMamdani is obviously on a very different side of the political spectrum but his identity isn\u2019t \u2018I\u2019m the anti-Trump guy\u2019. It\u2019s about his policy platform domestically in New York. For Andy Burnham, there are potentially some lessons there.\u201d<\/p>\n Among them, Dickinson said, are the charm offensives by Mamdani and Mark Rutte, the secretary general of Nato. \u201cIt\u2019s politicians who convey an aura of confidence and ease in their own skin and can present themselves as people who are eye-to-eye with Trump on certain things. They keep focusing on those certain things \u2013 even Mamdani can find those \u2013 and can present themselves as a net problem-solver for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on the lawn of the president\u2019s villa during the Casablanca conference in January 1943.<\/span> Photograph: Bettmann\/Bettmann Archive<\/p>\n One clear commonality between Burnham and the US president is their shared view that for decades mainstream politics has not worked for ordinary people. Trump may find that he admires Burnham\u2019s desire to shake up the staid and over-centralised British political establishment.<\/p>\n Sawetz, the communications adviser, said Trump\u2019s approach had long been to \u201cestablish the power dynamic quickly, whether through public criticism, personal remarks or by goading new counterparts into a very public response\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cBurnham won\u2019t take that invitation,\u201d she said. \u201cHe may brush off the occasional quip, but we know he doesn\u2019t favour open political confrontation or the kind of prolonged exchanges we\u2019ve seen with Sadiq Khan in London.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>John F Kennedy and Harold Macmillan at Washington airport in April 1962.<\/span> Photograph: William Lovelace\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Dickinson, of the Atlantic Council, suggests defence spending could be an early potential win for Burnham. <\/strong>\u201cI don\u2019t expect he will be coming to Washington any time soon but, when he does, he could come with a story to tell that says, this is my approach to defence investments and this is how it is helping solve a problem for you: we are going to go further on defence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Others believe Burnham should be prepared to cut deals. Joel Rubin<\/a>, a former deputy assistant secretary of state, advised: \u201cBurnham needs to come in with an agenda of what he needs from the US to advance his domestic goals, and to be ready to offer up tangible goodies to the US that will help Trump and the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n Conversely, other experts warn that bowing to Trump would be a diplomatic failure and domestic suicide. Brendan Boyle<\/a>, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, notes that \u201cany leader who takes on Trump benefits domestically from doing so,\u201d whereas if Burnham says \u201cabsurd, obsequious things in public, he would get absolutely hammered by his electorate\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/span>Margaret Thatcher dances with Ronald Reagan during at a White House state dinner in November 1988.<\/span> Photograph: Larry Rubenstein\/Reuters<\/p>\n Richard Stengel, a former undersecretary of state in the Barack Obama administration, urges Burnham to maintain a distance and adopt a \u201ctough love stance\u201d. He cautioned: \u201cFirst of all, I wouldn\u2019t wear a red tie under any circumstances. A red tie signals that you\u2019re lying down.<\/p>\n \u201cThat universal European response of kowtowing to him and sucking up to him just turns out to be a poor strategy. He turns on everybody so even if he forms an early \u2018Oh, he\u2019s my friend\u2019, he\u2019ll eventually turn on you. Burnham needs a certain distance.\u201d<\/p>\n Stengel added: \u201cI would no longer mention the special relationship. That is a dog that doesn\u2019t hunt any more and Americans don\u2019t get it and I don\u2019t know if the Brits do and it also seems to someone like Trump like you\u2019re being deferential.\u201d<\/p>\n Some analysts point to Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, as the gold standard. Earlier this year Carney delivered a speech at Davos that did not mention Trump by name but declared that the US-led \u201crules-based international order\u201d was facing a permanent rupture.<\/p>\n Steve Schmidt<\/a>, a political strategist and former adviser to Senator John McCain, said: \u201cThere are many people who would look at the state of the world and hold the view that Mark Carney is the most serious and important leader in the English-speaking world and is the person who has most fundamentally and substantially understood Trump and drew a line that other world leaders have rallied around.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>Bill Clinton and Tony Blair at a Nato signing ceremony in Paris in May 1997, shortly after Blair\u2019s election win.<\/span> Photograph: Charles Platiau\/Reuters<\/p>\n Blumenthal, who introduced Clinton to Blair before the latter became prime minister, has some further advice based on November\u2019s midterm elections. \u201cUnlike Starmer, Burnham will very likely have at least one Democratic counterpoint in the Congress, either the House and\/or the Senate to deal with.<\/p>\n \u201cBurnham represents the parliament himself and he should deal with them extensively. If the Democrats get control of either house, they are his allies and they can help him in innumerable ways. His government should establish extensive relationships with a new Democratic Congress to the benefit of Britain. That did not exist for Starmer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The phrase \u201cspecial relationship\u201d was coined by Winston Churchill during a lecture tour of the US<\/a> after the second world war. Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had been allies against Hitler, setting the bar for future double acts including Harold Macmillan and John F Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, Blair and Clinton, and Blair and George W Bush.<\/p>\n <\/span>President Barack Obama with then Prince Charles and Gordon Brown, then UK prime minister, at a memorial service at the Normandy American Cemetery on the 65th anniversary of the D-day landings in 2009.<\/span> Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid\/PA<\/p>\n Gordon Brown had a less happy experience with Barack Obama, who was evidently more at ease with Angela Merkel of Germany. Brown tried five times to get a meeting with Obama on the fringes of the 2009 UN general assembly but was merely granted a \u201csnatched conversation\u201d in a New York kitchen.<\/p>\n Theresa May was the first foreign leader to meet Trump at the White House after his inauguration in 2017; he memorably took her hand to guide her down a ramp. But temperamentally the pair were chalk and cheese. Trump delivered a series of humiliations<\/a> and, during a visit to Britain in 2018, criticised May\u2019s handling of Brexit while musing that her rival Boris Johnson would make a \u201cgreat prime minister\u201d.<\/p>\n The president did indeed find a kindred spirit and personal chemistry when Johnson reached No 10, remarking: \u201cThey call him Britain\u2019s Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n While Starmer\u2019s relationship with Trump started promisingly \u2013 with the prime minister memorably reaching into his jacket breast pocket and producing a letter from King Charles \u2013 it ended terribly. The question now is whether the \u201ctown mayor\u201d from Manchester can repair this fractured alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If, as expected, Andy Burnham becomes the British prime minister later this month, one of his first telephone calls is likely to be with Donald Trump. 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NEWS<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"If, as expected, Andy Burnham becomes the British prime minister later this month, one of his first telephone calls is likely to be with Donald Trump. Trump\u2019s mother was Scottish and he has a nostalgic fascination with Britain. 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