Burnham refuses to rule out a return to EU free movement ten years after Britain voted to leave
Andy Burnham, Prime Minister, whom Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said "hasn't thought this through" after he refused to rule out a return to EU free movement.Scenes of civil unrest in France that Nigel Farage shared online, claiming they showed "what Andy Burnham wants an open border with" ahead of the Prime Minister's Brussels summit on 20 November.
Nigel Farage called the Prime Minister's remarks a 'total betrayal of Brexit Britain' and branded him 'deluded'. Andy Burnham said pre-Brexit migration 'perhaps wasn't as difficult' as now. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp warned it would mean 'uncontrolled migration from across Europe'. Burnham meets EU chiefs in Brussels on November 20.
Labour's 2024 manifesto explicitly ruled out free movement, the single market and a customs union.
Kemi Badenoch said Burnham 'hasn't thought this through or the implications'.
Burnham has said Labour's next manifesto could 'possibly' include an in-out EU referendum.
