Tory Brexit was ‘harder’ than promised in EU referendum, says Andy Burnham
Source: The Guardian ·
Prime minister warns cabinet not to express opinions about future relationship with Brussels before review of optionsAndy Burnham has warned ministers not to express their opinions about how the government should approach Brexit, as he argued that the Conservatives’ deal with Brussels had been more extreme than that promised in the 2016 referendum.In another series of announcements connected to…
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Andy Burnham has warned ministers not to express their opinions about how the government should approach Brexit, as he argued that the Conservatives’ deal with Brussels had been more extreme than that promised in the 2016 referendum. In another series of announcements connected to his plan to seek closer links with the EU, Burnham told ministers at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the current deal was a bad one, before writing to frontbenchers setting out his hopes to address this. Brexit was also the main subject of Burnham’s exchanges with Kemi Badenoch at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, with the prime minister saying the UK had been “paralysed” by the lack of a Conservative plan after the vote. A Downing Street summary of the cabinet meeting put his comments about Brexit above even those concerning the budget, which the chancellor, John Healey, was to deliver soon afterwards. “The prime minister opened by setting out how he would shortly write to cabinet on the UK’s…