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Chris Mason: The US elections will change Trump – how will Burnham react?
The first public words from the prime minister after the American midterm elections were instantly revealing about contemporary international politics and diplomacy.
"Well, President Trump has accepted the results," Andy Burnham said.
It is not an observation British leaders have frequently had to make about recent American presidents – that they are not disputing the result of elections in their own country. But what would previously have been taken for granted no longer can be.
Burnham remains in the foothills of establishing a relationship with the president – so far it has amounted to a handful of phone calls and one face-to-face meeting at the United Nations in New York in September.
As he continues to attempt to build a rapport with Donald Trump, he will be doing so with a president in a wildly different political situation than when Sir Keir Starmer was trying to build bridges with him.
No longer is this a story of an extraordinary comeback, but of a midterm president seemingly punished for the consequences of a foreign war the type of which he had originally promised to avoid.
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And it is noticeable that the British government's public reaction is grounded too in the consequences of the war with Iran: the cost of living.
"I feel the world has an opportunity now to unite around the issue that is affecting us all and that's the cost of living," the prime minister said.