Prime minister Andy Burnham has said that the “world has an opportunity now” to focus on resolving the Iran war and easing the cost of living, following a disastrous midterm election for Donald Trump.
“That’s what the voters, in my view, are saying in the United States,” the Labour leader said, in a damning indictment of a humiliating set of results for the US president, which saw the Democrats take control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives as voters in conservative bastions shunned his Republican party.
