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Could the UK really rejoin the EU?

Global Published 7 October 2026, 19:45 · archived 7 Oct 2026

The big question facing ​A​ndy Burnham is not whether Brexit has harmed Britain, but if a rapidly changing Europe will keep the door open​ if the UK decides it wants back in• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt was lobbed into the national conversation without fanfare or warning, almost a footnote in the UK prime minister’s first speech as leader to his governing Labour party’s annual conference. But Andy Burnham has kicked off a quiet U-turn on Brexit.By stating bluntly that the decision to leave Europe’s core political community had done “more harm than good”, Bu...

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