No10 backtracks on Burnham's free movement referendum pledge within hours as Labour's Brexit position descends into chaos
A crowded migrant dinghy buckling under the swell in the Channel, as Andy Burnham argues Brexit left Britain with weaker control of its borders.Andy Burnham blamed Brexit for weakening control of immigration and for Britain's inability to return small boats migrants, as he prepares to meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on 20…
Andy Burnham is accused of 'Brexit hypocrisy' after it emerged he once warned free movement should never return, having been 'defeated at the ballot box' in 2016. On Good Morning Britain he said 'no' when asked if he would bring it back without a referendum. Hours later his spokeswoman insisted: 'We are not talking about a referendum.' It is the second time this month No10 has had to clarify his Brexit remarks.
Free movement would hand 450million EU citizens the right to live and work here.
Shabana Mahmood told MPs the PM's musings are 'not the same as settled policy'.
Burnham admitted he wants Britain to rejoin the EU 'in my lifetime'.
