“BREXIT BETRAYAL?!”— ANDY BURNHAM RIPPED APART IN FIERY COMMONS SHOWDOWN AS EXPLOSIVE QUESTIONS OVER THE EU SPARK POLITICAL FURY! The Greater Manchester mayor has been thrust into a fierce political row over Brexit, with his position facing intense scrutiny as the battle over Britain’s future with Europe erupts once again. Critics are demanding answers, rival voices are turning up the heat, and the confrontation has reignited bitter divisions over whether Brexit is being defended or quietly undermined.
Andy Burnham was skewered by Kemi Badenoch over Brexit in a Commons showdown today.
The Prime Minister claimed the “status quo is not good enough” as he confirmed he will push for closer ties with the EU.
But the Tory leader hit back: “His exact words earlier this year were ‘the last thing we should do right now is rerun those arguments’.
“And yet here he is unpicking the deal this country signed with the EU a decade after the referendum.
“He is not going to get a better deal. The EU are tough negotiators.
And it’s not just that the EU are tough negotiators, he has already revealed his entire negotiating hand, he has just blurted out everything he wants in this statement.
And I will tell him now this is not how you conduct negotiations.”
Burnham won’t row back on Labour’s Brexit red lines
Andy Burnham said he will not revisit Labour’s red lines on the EU from its 2024 election manifesto
The Prime Minister told the Commons: “As much as I want to improve growth in the UK, I also want to maintain trust in politics, and I’m afraid I’m not prepared to revisit the red lines in our manifesto.”
He was responding to Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey who pressed him to “drop Labour’s red lines now and open negotiations on joining the single market and a customs union”.
Burnham denies he questioned legitimacy of Brexit referendum
Andy Burnham has denied he questioned the legitimacy of the 2016 Brexit referendum result.
The Prime Minister told a podcast that the UK had not “informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas”.
Speaking in the Commons, Kemi Badenoch said: “Over the weekend, on The Rest Is Politics podcast, he implied that the referendum result was illegitimate because of Russian interference.
“Where has this come from?
We all remember in 2018, the head of MI5 said that there was no evidence that Russia had influenced the EU referendum result.”
She later added: “Will he confirm here and now whether he believes the referendum result was legitimate and, if not, will he publish the evidence that Russia swung the result of the 2016 referendum?”
The PM replied: “I implied no such thing in my comments on The Rest Is Politics podcast.
I think she should go back and look again.”
He also said “it is a matter of record that Russian actors sought to interfere” in a previous general election and continued: “We think it is inconceivable that this was the first time.”
