Donald Trump will 'tolerate' Andy Burnham... for now: White House figures predict Britain could get ANOTHER Prime Minister before end of US President's term

READ MORE: Can Ed Miliband REALLY cut it as Britain's new Foreign Secretary?See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy and CHARLIE SPIERING, US POLITICAL REPORTER and SAM MERRIMAN, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Published: 19:29 EDT, 23 July 2026 | Updated: 19:49 EDT, 23 July 2026 Donald Trump will 'tolerate' Andy Burnham under the expectation that he will not be the last Prime Minister of his presidency, White House figures believe.Concerns have been raised in Washington about potential frictions between Mr Burnham and the Trump administration – particularly over the appointment of Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary.On Thursday Washington's ambassador to the UK evidenced this as he said Britain's most senior diplomat was 'wrong' to have called President Trump a 'racist' and 'groper' in the past.Senior figures in the Trump administration such as JD Vance have been increasingly willing to intervene in British politics in recent years – particularly on immigration and free speech.And following Mr Burnham's appointment as PM this week there have been briefings from Washington that he could be on a collision course with the White House.But the President will 'tolerate' Mr Burnham for now, a source close to the White House told the Daily Mail, with the expectation that he would not be the last Prime Minister of his tenure.'The thinking in the White House is that this Labour government will eventually implode; there'll be a UK general election, and Nigel Farage might be the next prime minister,' the source said.Downing Street declined to comment. Donald Trump (pictured earlier this week) is prepared to tolerate Andy Burnham under the assumption that he won't be the last Prime Minister of his presidency Concerns are understood to have been raised in Washington about the appointment of Ed Miliband (pictured last year) as Britain's Foreign Secretary Mr Trump labelled Mr Burnham (pictured earlier this week) 'extremely liberal' and 'the mayor of a town' but the President has since spoken supportively about the Prime MinisterMr Burnham is Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade – and sixth since Mr Trump was first elected in 2016 – while the US President will serve until a successor takes over January 2029.Another Trump administration source told the Mail that Mr Burnham is already seen as weak by some in Washington because he was appointed by Labour rather than winning a General Election.'I do think there's a sense in Washington that Burnham has no democratic mandate,' another DC insider said. 'He's on very weak footing.'Mr Trump labelled Mr Burnham 'extremely liberal' and 'the mayor of a town' in his first public comments after his victory at the Makerfield by-election. But the President has since spoken supportively about the PM and said a call between them 'went very well'.Mr Trump remains outwardly positive and diplomatic about his new relationship with Mr Burnham, and is committed to maintaining a warm relationship with the UK, sources told the Mail.There is no need for the President to be outwardly hostile to Mr Burnham until the PM gives him a reason to do so, one source added.Another source close to the White House said: 'Trump is trying not to say anything bad about the new British Prime Minister to see if he can work with him first. 'That doesn't mean he likes him. He is just taking the wait-and-see approach right now.'They both agreed to meet soon without setting a date, we were told.'However another source warned that Mr Burnham may have already made 'critical' mistakes in the relationship, with the US State Department 'baffled' by Mr Miliband's appointment.But another person close to Mr Trump said that the Foreign Secretary is not a big topic of conversation in the White House, adding of Mr Miliband: 'Who is that?'Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, warned that it 'is all going to end in tears'. 'We're going to see multiple clashes between the White House and Downing Street. It's inevitable,' he added.It came as Elon Musk said yesterday that there will be a 'reckoning' in the UK, despite admitting he had not been to Britain for 'a few years'.Questioned about past comments that the UK was heading for a 'civil war' due to the growing Muslim population, the world's richest man said: 'If you have a large and growing, rapidly growing, group of people whose beliefs are antithetical to western beliefs, at some point there will be a reckoning.'Mr Musk said he had been to the UK 'literally a hundred times' but asked when the last time was he told The Economist: 'A few years ago.'