FROM BAD TO WORSE: Both Labour Leaders Challenging Failed PM Keir Starmer Want Britain to Rejoin the European Union

If left unchecked, Labour will destroy Britain.

If you think the situation in Britain was bad under failed Prime Minister Keir Starmer, just wait until you learn the plans of his two challengers.

It arises today that both former Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham defend the thesis that Britain must rejoin the European Union.

They would both ‘seek a mandate’ for this move if elected Labour Party leader and Prime Minister.

“Britain’s future lies with Europe – and one day, back in the European Union.”

Former health secretary Wes Streeting says the UK needs a new special relationship with Europe, as he calls Brexit a ‘catastrophic mistake’.https://t.co/SYHV5Ws1Hc

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The Telegraph reported:

“In a speech on Saturday, Mr. Streeting called for the UK to rejoin the European Union, saying that ‘Britain’s future lies with Europe’. The former health secretary described leaving the EU as a ‘catastrophic mistake’, adding that Britain needed a new “special relationship” with the trading bloc.

Meanwhile, The Telegraph was told by Mr. Burnham’s allies that he stood by his stance of wanting to rejoin the EU in due course. Speaking at the Labour conference last year, Mr. Burnham said: ‘Long term, I’m going to be honest, I’m going to say it, I want to rejoin it. Look, I hope in my lifetime I see this country rejoin the European Union’.”

Reform UK will reportedly make ‘Brexit betrayal’ one of its key attack lines in the by-election campaign that Burnham needs to win to return to Parliament and challenge Starmer.

“On Saturday, Mr. Burnham signaled that as prime minister he would embark on a program of mass nationalization, including of energy, housing, water and transport.

He used an interview with Channel 4 News to call for the UK to go down a ‘completely’ different path to the past 40 years, which would involve putting ‘more things back under stronger public control’.”

Burnham and Streeting’s stance on rejoining the EU caused a backlash today, including among MPs from their own party.

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