I would like to rejoin EU, says Burnham, but ‘British public are the bosses’ – UK politics live
Özet haber: In his Good Morning Britain interview, Andy Burnham was twice asked about an early election. At the start, Susanna Reid asked him if he was softening people up for an early election. Burnham replied: No, I’ve ruled that out. Asked if that was absolutely the case, he said it was. He said he had made that clear before the Labour conference.
In his Good Morning Britain interview, Andy Burnham was twice asked about an early election. At the start, Susanna Reid asked him if he was softening people up for an early election. Burnham replied: No, I’ve ruled that out. Asked if that was absolutely the case, he said it was. He said he had made that clear before the Labour conference. He went on: I just don’t think people want another backward-looking squabble.
I think they want me to get on with the job. And, when Reid raised the subject again at the end of the interview, Burnham said: My mind is not on that [an early election]. I don’t know if that is coming over here, but it genuinely is not on that. There is no election coming anytime soon. People may as well just put that out of their mind.
Reid did not ask specifically about polling, but two polls came out over the weekend both giving Labour an eight-point lead. This is from Ipsos. NEW headline voting intention from Ipsos 📊Labour on 32% with a lead of +8 – the largest Labour
Good morning. Andy Burnham started budget week with an interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain with Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley. There were plenty of decent lines in it, but some of his most intriguing comments were about Brexit.
Yesterday opposition parties (and even in private some Labour MPs) were criticising the PM for saying in a Sunday Times interview that he would be willing to consider going into the next election proposing accepting EU free movement rules.
This was treated as if it was a novel outrage – even though at Labour conference Burnham announced that rejoining the EU could end up as the best option to emerge from his proposed renegotiation of the Brexit settlement, which of course would automatically involve accepting free movement.
Neil Kinnock said recently he thought Burnham was determined to take Britain back in the EU, but in his interview this morning Burnham insisted that he was not dogmatic in that way. When Madeley asked him if he saw himself as someone “
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