Andy Burnham has been warned that the US president ‘will not forget’ Ed Miliband’s fierce criticism of him in the past and that he has some ‘serious diplomatic repair to undertake’ in his new role

His promotion to Foreign Secretary under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham will see Mr Miliband charged with mending Britain's fraying 'Special Relationship' with the US.

Whatever the appointment of Ed Miliband says about Andy Burnham, the fact he took it shows our new Foreign Secretary is incapable of shame