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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has opened up the debate about eventually rejoining the EU (PA)<\/p>\nWriting in The Sunday Times, the Labour former Cabinet minister said she welcomes \u201cAndy Burnham\u2019s leadership\u201d after remarks made by the Prime Minister in recent days fuelled questions about the prospect of Britain returning to the bloc or adopting its freedom of movement rules.<\/p>\n
Mr Burnham wants to lock in deals on food and drink, emissions trading and a youth mobility scheme at a summit with the bloc next month, but told ministers that the period beyond that would be to \u201cexplore options\u201d for the long-term relationship.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has opened up the debate about eventually rejoining the EU (PA)<\/p>\n
Ms Reeves, who was sacked as chancellor by Andy Burnham when he took office, said: \u201cI am proud of the progress we have already made in strengthening our relationship with the European Union.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrexit has made us poorer, weaker and less secure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a debate to be had about our future relationship with Europe, and I welcome Andy Burnham\u2019s leadership in facing up to this. No one in the Treasury ever doubted where my instincts were.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Ms Reeves said she believed \u201cBritain\u2019s future lies in the European Union\u201d, she stressed it was \u201cincumbent on supporters of our re-entry to make the argument, demonstrate tangible benefits and to get the next steps right\u201d.<\/p>\n
Any options on Britain\u2019s future relationship with Brussels will eventually be put to the public, but the Prime Minister earlier this week warned individual ministers it would not be appropriate \u201cto advocate for specific options or opine on the likely outcome of the process\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a letter to his Cabinet, Mr Burnham said any \u201cfundamental change\u201d to post-Brexit arrangements would be \u201cfor the public to decide\u201d and left to the next parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writing in The Sunday Times, the Labour former Cabinet minister said she welcomes \u201cAndy Burnham\u2019s leadership\u201d after remarks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-954304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}