🚨 David Miliband 👏 Brexit was a “unilateral declaration of political impotence” that has left Britain like “a bobbing cork in the sea”.
“Andy doesn’t say things by accident.”
@DMiliband confirmed what yesterday’s headlines suggested: Burnham’s refusal to rule out reversing Brexit was deliberate.
He says Britain now needs a structured, institutional relationship with Europe that repairs the damage caused by leaving the Single Market and Customs Union and that our European relationship must be transformed by the end of the next Parliament.
Asked whether
@andyburnham will deliver this, Miliband replies:
“I do because he has said he will. When Andy says we have got to be bold and ambitious, he doesn’t say things by accident. We should take him at his word.”
Yesterday Burnham left the door open.
Today a former Labour foreign secretary is telling us that he meant to.
This is beginning to look less like speculation and more like the construction of a political mandate to reverse Brexit.
Game on. 🇬🇧🇪🇺