Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Burnham

Burnham told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "helium did not privation to permission the question of the EU narration 'hanging' and helium wanted to beryllium wide connected 'where we privation Britain to spell successful the adjacent decade'." When asked whether he wanted the UK to rejoin the EU, he replied that he wanted to "look astatine the options". He added that helium had antecedently advocated specified a determination wrong his lifetime, whilst acknowledging it was "not needfully the lawsuit that that is now". "We could enactment arsenic we are. That's definitely an option, if radical deliberation this is the close spot to stay," helium told the programme. "We could look astatine what [former Chancellor] George Osborne has said astir a customs union, we could look astatine what the Liberal Democrats said astatine their conference astir the azygous market, oregon we could spell each the way." "So determination are intelligibly options that request to beryllium considered, and we person to look astatine what is doable and what would beryllium the pros and cons of each," helium added. In his league code connected Tuesday, Burnham blamed Brexit for a nonaccomplishment of power implicit some migration and the economy, telling delegates helium did not judge the existent narration was "good enough". He told activists helium wanted to usage the rescheduled acme aboriginal this twelvemonth to laic retired "different options" for the UK's semipermanent narration with Europe. He promised to "find consensus" connected an enactment to clarify the UK's position, though did not connection further item of however this would beryllium measured. In effect to Burnham's league speech, Conservative lawman person Alex Burghart said: "Labour cannot pin the blasted for their disastrous economical decisions connected a ballot that happened implicit a decennary ago." "Besides, they are already dragging america into the European Union via the backmost doorway with their EU reset."