{"id":771587,"date":"2026-09-15T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771587\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:30:15","slug":"long-past-time-for-uk-eu-membership-conversation-tuc-motion-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771587\/","title":{"rendered":"Long past time for UK-EU membership conversation, TUC motion shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners have urged the Prime Minister Andy Burnham to \u201crule nothing out\u201d, echoing calls by the Trade Union Congress.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shutterstock_2163071297-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1713\" height=\"1142\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton has passed a motion brought by Prospect, which calls for the UK government to keep \u201cno options off the table\u201d on UK-EU relations. It also urges the Prime Minister and his cabinet to be \u201cguided by the national interest, not by arbitrary red lines\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Brufatto, Executive Director of Policy and Research at Best for Britain, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs polling and independent economic research both resoundingly demonstrate, it\u2019s long past time for the UK to have a conversation about our EU membership, which voters have made clear they recognise is what is best for Britain, and expect politicians to deliver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis TUC motion moves us closer towards that, and provides vital further evidence that Andy Burnham\u2019s government should rule nothing out when it comes to the UK\u2019s economic, security, cultural and political future in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners have urged the Prime Minister Andy Burnham to \u201crule nothing out\u201d, echoing calls by the Trade Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}