‘He gets it’, says Trump of Burnham at UN General Assembly meeting – UK politics live

US president says Burnham will be ‘a great PM’ in friendly first meeting on the sidelines of New York gatheringIf Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump later (which he doesn’t), he could bring along a copy of today’s Financial Times. This front page headline speaks for itself.Mortgages ‘on the front line’ as Iran war deals £840 blow to homeownersBritish homeowners are paying an average of £840 a year more when they refinance their mortgages, as the rising borrowing costs triggered by the Iran war start to impact consumers’ spending power.Approximately 1m households have