British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is about to come face-to-face with the man his own officials blame for the U.K. government’s economic predicament: Donald Trump. Britain’s new leader — still trying to cling to the optimism that has characterized his first two months in office — is due to meet the U.S. president at the U.N. General Assembly this week.
But privately, Burnham’s aides have grown alarmed that the president’s actions mean the coming winter could see rises in energy bills, inflation and interest rates, threatening the new premier’s defining promise to lower the cost of living. That realization appeared to bring Burnham’s honeymoon toward a shuddering halt this week, a situation a senior Labour official said was all down to Trump.
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