Deep inside Labour’s voluminous conference documentation is a proposal to “examine the possibility of rejoining the European Union being a manifesto promise for the next general election“. That position has growing support within Labour…
A policy proposal from Bristol Central Constituency Labour Party designed to push the leadership to publicly adopt a pro-rejoin position is sneaking through the conference process. Burnham himself recently claimed he would like to see the UK rejoin the EU within his lifetime and is pursuing a stealth rejoin agenda as PM…
The idea has gone through a Labour mechanism called a ‘reference back’ which sees it sent to the powerful National Policy Forum – the highest policy authority inside the party. As Labour Attorney General Ellie Reeves boasted in her speech about the NPF yesterday, this move often prefigures the later adoption by the leadership of particular policies…
The wording is pretty clear: “Conference calls on the NPF to look beyond the ’24 manifesto commitments with respect to the EU relationship and to press for faster re-alignment with the EU 23 single market within this parliament and to examine the possibility of rejoining the European Union being a manifesto promise for the next general election.” Don’t say you weren’t warned Burnham wants to rejoin the EU as quickly as possible..
Bookmark this from Andy Burnham:
2029: “that’s when the next election will be.”
May 2027: “Absolutely not.”
“No election any time soon.”
“All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead.”