UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham refused to rule out reversing the 2016 Brexit referendum in which the public voted to leave the European Union, potentially lining up yet another battle over the future of British sovereignty.
\n\nRecently installed Prime Minister Burnham, who swept to power last month off the back of a Westminster palace coup against Sir Keir Starmer after parachuting into parliament with the support of just over 25,000 votes in a special election, has said that he will respect the red lines laid out in Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto, despite not personally having been elected on the basis of the set pledges.
\n\nAmong those promises was a vow not to re-litigate the 2016 Brexit vote, which saw a majority of the British voting public back a withdrawal from the globalist European Union project and a return to national self-determination.
\n\nHowever, according to The Guardian, the new prime minister is already being pressured by backbenchers in his left-wing Labour Party to reverse course and openly embrace the aim of rejoining the EU. When reporters pressed him this week on whether he would campaign on rejoining the bloc at the next general election, Burnham refused to rule out putting…
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