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When asked whether he wants Britain to rejoin the EU, Burnham said he wants to see that happen in his lifetime, but he is “not proposing rejoining in this parliament.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are way away from that at this particular moment in time,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burnham said the “decade of experience” since Brexit has not “played out as people said it would at the time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brexit weakened Britain’s economy and control of immigration, said Burnham, adding that the crisis of small boat crossings by illegal immigrants has arisen since Brexit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026 marks a decade since the Brexit referendum in June 2016 when some 52 percent of the voters backed leaving the EU. Britain formally left the bloc in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain’s Labor Party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons in the 2024 general election. Unless an early general election is called, the current parliament is expected to run for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham ruled out Britain rejoining the EU in the current parliament in an interview broadcast on Monday by British media.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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