- UK Prime Minister , Andy Burnham has declared that the UK could decide to rejoin my rest of Europe.
- Recall that a decade on from the contentious Brexit vote and six years after the United Kingdom officially left the European Union, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has opened the door to the country rejoining, saying the UK needed to consider all its options with its largest trading partner.”
- ”We could stay as we are, that’s definitely an option if people think this is the right place to stay.”
- ”We could look at what George Osborne has said about a customs union.”
- ”We could look at what the Liberal Democrats said at their conference about single market, or we could go all the way.”
- ”I will say this bluntly: Brexit has caused more harm than good, so the question is what do we do about that?.”
- ”The Labour leader told his party’s annual conference on Tuesday that Brexit had triggered a decade of low growth.”
- ”Brexit means Brexit.”
- ”The Conservative party took the country out of the EU after Britain’s voters left by 52% to 48%.”
- ”Recent polls though show a majority would now opt to rejoin.”
- ”A mood reflected in this East London borough Wednesday, when more than 62% voted to leave in 2016.”
- ”I even I voted out because I thought we would be better, but no, it’s not really, mith has gone up, you know, food and petrol and everything, you know, so [inaudible].”
- ”This is like a a no-brainer really to have better connections so we can have better work together.”
- ”We’ve got to weigh up like what’s going to happen, you know, are there going to be any penalties for for rejoining?.”
- Similarly, the French and Spanish leaders applauded the idea.”
- ”Welcome back.” Says Macron
- ”If the British want to return to that original leading role, in that sense, I think it’s very good news for both their country and for Europeans.”
- ”Emmanuel Macron warned though that rejoining wouldn’t mean the UK being able to pick and choose which parts of [inaudible