To Andy Burnham, his Cabinet is the elite inner circle who will help him remake Britain.
But in Washington, they are barely known outside a small group of analysts and political nerds. And more concerningly, those who are known are already in the White House’s bad books.
Burnham himself will be mostly unknown to the US President too, and faces a stark choice of how far he should placate a mercurial Donald Trump without humiliating himself.
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The new Prime Minister held his first call with Trump yesterday, during which he invited the US President to Manchester for next year’s G20 summit.
