Burnham was asked on GMB whether he would put Britain back into the EU:
“I’ve said I’m going to be honest and say in my lifetime I would like to see that happen, but I am not going to move ahead of the public. I am not going to dictate in terms of my my own opinions here. You have to make sure the the public the British public are the bosses. We have a decade of experience now looking back at Brexit and I don’t think it has played out as people said it would at the time.
We got a harder Brexit than was proposed in the referendum campaign. It’s weakened our economy. It’s also weakened our control of immigration and that might surprise people because that was the big issue but know the small boats crisis has arisen since and we have a different form of of migration now. However, I’m not proposing rejoining in this parliament. We’re way be way away from from that at this particular moment in time. What I am saying is we need to take some practical steps to make the arrangement work.”
Burnham also said there would not be an election until the European question was appropriately situated for him:
“There is no election coming anytime soon, people may as well put that out of their mind. Britain, in my view, is starting to regain its momentum, its sense of positivity, its direction. I’m trying to give this country a direction and there is no way I can do that without coming back to the relationship with Europe and saying: ‘here are some options on how we can do that.'”
The Brexit election beckons…
Ex-Chancellor Hunt told Laura Kuenssberg:
“We have one million people not in employment, education or training. The government says it is serious about getting them back into work. To suddenly say you are prepared to negotiate allowing people from all over Europe to come and take those jobs would be a hammer blow to those plans to get people off welfare and into work.
Whatever your views are on the European issue – and I voted Remain – going back to that old model where employers were giving jobs to people from all over Europe and we were parking people on welfare here must be a step back.
When you have to have these big, constitutional debates you have to have an unwritten agreement that you are only going to come back to them once in a generation. Otherwise it is so divisive.
I was at the top of a government that was paralysed for several years while we were trying to wrestle with the implications of that vote. I think that having made a decision we should stick with it.”
Rayner said this morning:
“Where are we today, how has that affected our economy and how do we go into the future. That has to be based on fact.
We can’t go backwards. We have to go forwards. And therefore we have to look at what that future relationship will be like.
I have been a politician since 2015. I remember the Brexit debates. I remember the promises that were made to the British people – leave the EU, more money coming into the NHS, better economy – people haven’t seen that realised.
What I want is an honest conversation about what the facts are to get the best deal for Britain going forward. I want to see the best deal for the people of my constituency and for Britain.
We haven’t got the best deal. I would like to have an honest conversation about what the trade offs will be and then put that to the British people at the election.
You can’t take anything off the table when you’re having a conversation”
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