Prime Minister Andy Burnham will “open up North Sea oil”, President Donald Trump said during an Oval Office event on 29 June. According to Trump, the prospect of North Sea drilling for the UK is “one very good thing”. Trump often took the former prime minister Keir Starmer to task over using North Sea resources. The US president claimed every oil company he met was “dying” to drill the North Sea, describing it as “among the finest oil” on the planet. Trump says Scotland has “areas of the North Sea that haven’t even been explored yet.