{"id":79047,"date":"2026-09-23T00:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/wednesday-briefing-can-burnham-seek-a-different-path-to-trumps-world-order\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T00:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:57:54","slug":"wednesday-briefing-can-burnham-seek-a-different-path-to-trumps-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/wednesday-briefing-can-burnham-seek-a-different-path-to-trumps-world-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday briefing: \u200bCan Burnham \u200bseek a \u200bdifferent \u200bpath\u200b to Trump\u2019s world order?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: The PM\u2019s first face\u2011to\u2011face with\u200b the US president marks a fragile reset<\/p>\n<p>Good morning. In the early hours of Tuesday a plane carrying Andy Burnham, a handful of UK ministers, an excited group of British political journalists, and Burnham\u2019s wife, Marie France, landed at a New York airport for one of Burnham\u2019s first major outings as prime minister: a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the president once described Burnham as the mayor of \u201ca town,\u201d and the prime minister once said Trump wouldn\u2019t be welcome in said town (Manchester), the meeting yesterday afternoon went remarkably well.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UN general assembly <\/strong><\/em>| Donald Trump has called on nations to unite to isolate Tehran and bring down global energy prices, as he gave a bellicose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/22\/trump-calls-on-allies-enforce-complete-economic-isolation-iran-un-speech\">defence of his administration\u2019s foreign policy<\/a> and decision to strike Iran.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The far right <\/strong><\/em>| Charities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/22\/far-right-activist-daniel-thomas-slashes-dinghy-with-blade-while-rescue-worker-onboard\">have condemned footage<\/a> of a far-right activist using a blade to slash an inflatable dinghy in the Channel while a rescue worker was onboard, in a further escalation of organised anti-immigration protest.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UK news <\/strong><\/em>| Children as young as 13 in the UK have been referred to a specialist clinic for a \u201cdevastating\u201d bladder condition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/sep\/22\/liverpool-alder-hey-hospital-rise-children-ketamine-bladder-addiction\">linked to sustained use of ketamine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>West Bank <\/strong><\/em>| British banks and financial institutions are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/sep\/22\/mps-uk-banks-investment-israeli-settlement-trade-ban\">receiving warnings from MPs<\/a> that they should not invest in Israel\u2019s E1 settlement project.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UK politics <\/strong><\/em>| Andy Burnham has opened the door to fighting the next election on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/sep\/22\/andy-burnham-fails-rule-out-brexit-reversal-next-labour-manifesto\">UK rejoining the EU<\/a>, but said his immediate priority was continuing to rebuild bridges with European allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/23\/wednesday-briefing-can-burnham-seek-a-different-path-to-trumps-world-order\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: The PM\u2019s first face\u2011to\u2011face with\u200b the US president marks a fragile reset Good morning. In the early hours of Tuesday a plane carrying Andy Burnham, a handful of UK ministers, an excited group of British political journalists, and Burnham\u2019s wife, Marie France, landed at a New York airport for one of Burnham\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Wednesday briefing: \u200bCan Burnham \u200bseek a \u200bdifferent \u200bpath\u200b to Trump\u2019s world order?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/wednesday-briefing-can-burnham-seek-a-different-path-to-trumps-world-order\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wednesday briefing: \u200bCan Burnham \u200bseek a \u200bdifferent \u200bpath\u200b to Trump\u2019s world order?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}