{"text":[[{"start":6.75,"text":"Donald Trump said he had heard Andy Burnham was “extremely liberal”, in the US president’s first comments on Britain’s prospective prime minister."}],[{"start":15.1,"text":"Asked what he knew about the former mayor of Greater Manchester, Trump said: “I don’t know anything. I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town."}],[{"start":23.549999999999997,"text":"“I hear he is extremely liberal, extremely. So that means he probably won’t open up the North Sea,” Trump said on Wednesday at the White House."}],[{"start":31.799999999999997,"text":"Burnham’s campaign to oust Sir Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader and UK prime minister has been focused on domestic politics, but managing his relationship with the mercurial US president will be one of his chief challenges."}],[{"start":44.65,"text":"Starmer has largely avoided public criticism of Trump during his premiership, as he sought to negotiate a trade deal with Washington and maintain American support for Ukraine in its war with Russia."}],[{"start":57.55,"text":"Starmer was blasted by Trump for failing to back the war in Iran, with the US president describing him as “no Winston Churchill”."}],[{"start":66.14999999999999,"text":"Trump has also repeatedly criticised Starmer’s government for what he said was an effort to kill off the UK’s oil and gas industry. In a post on Truth Social last weekend, Trump said Starmer had “failed badly” on energy."}],[{"start":86.19999999999999,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1782371967_6680.mp3"}