'How Andy Burnham should handle Trump' - LBC caller tells Nick Ferrari
LBC caller Lenny answered Nick Ferrari's question of how to handle Donald Trump by saying he doesn't think Andy Burnham is the man for the job.
LBC caller Lenny calls in to answer Nick Ferrari's question of how to handle Donald Trump by saying he doesn't think Andy Burnham is the man for the job.
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He told Nick that the US President played Keir Starmer ‘like a fiddle’ and will do the same to Burnham; therefore, we need to get someone in who Trump 'respects'.
The new prime minister has said he would stand up to Mr Trump 'if it was the right thing to do.'
Mr Burnham said he had a good first exchange with a "really warm" the US president, but also said he "wouldn't hold back from saying what I think is right".
When asked if he would call out Trump if it was the right thing, he said, "of course", before adding, "you have to defend your own national interest before anything else.
"That's what you're required to do if you're to do this job properly."
On the question of whether he could trust the US President, he said, "we've had one phone call." He said he found him warm during that conversation, but acknowledged that "it's a changing world, isn't it, and you just obviously have to call things as they develop".
He also said that, if he disagrees with Mr Trump, he may "need to voice a different idea that is right for Britain," and that going forward he "wouldn't hold back from saying what I think is right".