UK politics: Burnham says US midterm results have created ‘opportunity’ for world to focus on cost of living and ending Iran war – as it happened

Andy Burnham has said that he hopes the sweeping losses for Donald Trump’s Republican party in the US elections will give the world an “opportunity” to focus on ending the Iran war and easing the cost of living pressures.

In an interview at the Commonwealth summit in Antigua, asked if he was worried the results might make Trump more unpredictable, Burnham replied:

President Trump has accepted the results, and I feel the world has an opportunity now to unite around the issue that is affecting us all, and that’s the cost of living. That has been the issue that I have put front and centre in my first three months in Downing Street, and we’ve made moves.