{"id":25058,"date":"2026-09-22T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/trump-says-relations-better-with-burnham-than-starmer-after-first-face-to-face-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T20:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:37:18","slug":"trump-says-relations-better-with-burnham-than-starmer-after-first-face-to-face-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/trump-says-relations-better-with-burnham-than-starmer-after-first-face-to-face-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says relations better with Burnham than Starmer after first face-to-face meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president calls UK prime minister \u2018a natural businessperson\u2019 as leaders meet at UN assembly in New York<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has asserted his relationship with the UK is \u201cmore up\u201d with Andy Burnham than under Keir Starmer despite tensions between the two countries on a range of thorny issues including regulation of artificial intelligence, the Chagos islands and the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>At their first face-to-face meeting, the US president praised Burnham, who sat nervously alongside him, as a \u201cnatural businessperson\u201d, saying he thought he had \u201clots of assets on his side\u201d and would be a \u201cgreat\u201d prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/22\/trump-says-relations-better-with-burnham-than-starmer-after-first-face-to-face-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/921bc36ddade09a1231e226acd651c07939be527\/0_0_3500_2800\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f070eb8912fd2574e0214b20c2628ab7\" title=\"Trump says relations better with Burnham than Starmer after first face-to-face meeting\" \/>US president calls UK prime minister \u2018a natural businessperson\u2019 as leaders meet at UN assembly in New York<br \/>\nDonald Trump has asserted his relationship with the UK is \u201cmore up\u201d with Andy Burnham than under Keir Starmer despite tensions between the two countries on a range of thorny issues including regulation of artificial intelligence, the Chagos islands and the war in Iran.<br \/>\nAt their first face-to-face meeting, the US president praised Burnham, who sat nervously alongside him, as a \u201cnatural businessperson\u201d, saying he thought he had \u201clots of assets on his side\u201d and would be a \u201cgreat\u201d prime minister. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president calls UK prime minister \u2018a natural businessperson\u2019 as leaders meet at UN assembly in New York Donald Trump has asserted his relationship with the UK is \u201cmore up\u201d with Andy Burnham than under Keir Starmer despite tensions between the two countries on a range of thorny issues including regulation of artificial intelligence, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/trump-says-relations-better-with-burnham-than-starmer-after-first-face-to-face-meeting\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump says relations better with Burnham than Starmer after first face-to-face meeting<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}