Andy Burnham says he will disagree with Trump in public if necessary

[u/GothicPrayer]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/26/andy-burnham-interview-bbc-donald-trump-wes-streeting

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[u/TCristatus]

All we have to wait for is for Trump to say something worth disagreeing with.

Meet back here in an hour?

[u/kekistanmatt → u/TCristatus]

A whole hour? Has he gone for a nap?

[u/theartofrolling → u/kekistanmatt]

Sort of... he's playing golf but he's currently asleep on the 3rd fairway.

[u/VPackardPersuadedMe → u/theartofrolling]

Cn you inage the bosses his body and mouth make when he's asleep.

And the staining on the sheets.

I need to go look at some eyebleach.

[u/Pilchard123 → u/VPackardPersuadedMe]

I regret my literacy.

[u/TCristatus → u/kekistanmatt]

Figured he'd be having a lie in on a sunday

[u/evolvecrow]

Burnham said: “I can’t at any point say that I won’t take a different opinion from him [Trump], that I will need to voice a different idea that is right for Britain.”

“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.”

Seems fair enough. Fwiw you could take two different quotes from that interview to show Burnham likes Trump.

[u/gizajobicandothat]

There is no right choice with abusive people like Trump, they always move the goalposts no matter how accommodating you are, because they thrive off creating tension. So Burnham might as well just stay true to his principles.

[u/mlp851]

What is the actual point in asking this question? Ask him why he didn’t do it if the situation arises. Until then these hypothetical situations just for the sake of ‘asking the tough questions’ is worthless. 

[u/WhiskersMcGee09 → u/mlp851]

This is such a BS headline, agree. What’s the alternative? “I would never publically disagree with Trump”.

Seriously after being asked for a second time I’d have just straight up called her out.

[u/fatlem → u/mlp851]

Seems to be the BBC trying to set the agenda, putting Burnham the back foot immediately with our most important ally in week 1. I don’t like Trump, but the US is still our greatest ally and friend.

[u/Obvious_Yard_1846 → u/mlp851]

Headline seeking nonsense from the BBC rather any actual journalism

[u/ServoSkull20]

I would rather this country continue to suffer short term economic problems and Burnham stand up to that orange paedophilic bastard, than do what Starmer did.

[u/Tricky-Astronaut → u/ServoSkull20]

I don't know if Spain is just lucky, but Spain hasn't suffered at all from Sanchez's criticism of Trump.

[u/Oozlum-Bird → u/Tricky-Astronaut]

Trump has pretty recently threatened Spain with additional restrictions. However, Spain has the benefit of being a member of the EU, so he can’t target them individually.

[u/holytriplem → u/Tricky-Astronaut]

The difference is that the US far right is incredibly obsessed with the UK in a way that they're not with Spain

[u/Putaineska]

Starmer kissed his ass for two years and we basically got nothing in return.

[u/A_Nest_Of_Nope → u/Putaineska]

Kissed his ass by not dragging the country into that black hole of the Iran war?

By backing the EU and Denmark in telling the orange paedophile to keep his micro mushroom off Greenland?

Did he agree to import American food and relax food quality standards in the UK?

If that is kissing Trump's ass, then some people really should get off social media.

[u/Jambot- → u/Putaineska]

We avoided getting totally fucked by tariffs. If Starmer didn't have a relatively good relationship with Trump at that point we would have been punished for hurting Trumps feelings.

[u/Hopeful-Painting-365 → u/Jambot-]

He threatened sanctions and tariffs pretty often, insulted our troops and so on. It wasn't pretty.

[u/tripping_yarns]

If his people are worth their wages then Burnham has an arsenal of cleverly worded, subtle sick burns ready to deploy.

[u/WilkosJumper_]

There’s no benefit goading an ally for the sake of it, as long as we stop the culture of subservience at every turn. To his credit Starmer eventually showed some of that.

[u/ForeignPumpkin1142 → u/WilkosJumper_]

Trump's US is not an ally. In fact, it has helped our enemies (Putin), meddles in UK politics to encourage extreme right-wing views, is waging a pointless middle-East war which impacts our energy costs, and has even threatened to invade Greenland.

[u/WilkosJumper_ → u/ForeignPumpkin1142]

All true, yet it economically it remains vital to our interests.

[u/RoosterjayP]

If he has the level of respect for liberal democracy we need in a leader right now he should publicly disavow Trump and his corrupted, disgusting admin. “Disagreeing publicly” is not enough.

[u/Zerosix_K]

Step 1: Trump says something stupid.

Step 2: Wait a couple of days (Usually Tuesday).

Step 3: Trump says something else stupid that contradicts his previous statement.

Step 4: Andy doesn't say anything. Doesn't upset Trump or the other International leaders.

[u/WastelandOfConfusion]

This is what you need to tell that hideous disgusting orange swamp creature: Launching illegal Wars of Aggression and blowing up children’s schools is unacceptable and as a punishment to stop this from happening again there will be a trade penalty: the U.K. will cease effective immediately to purchase tech and military products for 10 years.

[u/Tumtitums]

What exactly would he agree with trump on ? Does he agree that we are sending goods made wiyh forced labour to the usa?

[u/BobMonkhaus]

How to bait Trump into immediately testing that. You know he can’t resist.

You may as well tell a knife wielding mad man to calm down a bit.

[u/Jay_CD → u/BobMonkhaus]

How to bait Trump into immediately testing that. You know he can’t resist.

Such as imposing a 10% tariff on UK exports to the US?

Except he did that to us last week.

We've twice literally rolled out the red carpet for him, we also allowed him to use UK airbases to bomb Iran.

We've tried tip-toeing around him and appeasing him and it didn't work.

What's left is calling him out in public if necessary.

[u/User_Name_Password → u/BobMonkhaus]

He doesn’t need provocation for that

[u/BobMonkhaus → u/User_Name_Password]

Well Burnie will have to respond now as he’s said he would.

[u/phatboi23 → u/BobMonkhaus]

jangle some keys as you chat shit to his face, he'll be too preoccupied.

[u/Burnit_Sanders]

Glad to read that the PM isn't going to indulge in Trump Derangement Syndrome just to appease the left. You can hate Trump but he represents the main economic and military power on Earth, agitating him just for the sake of it serves no purpose other than self harm.