Andy Burnham has been speaking out of both sides of his mouth about Europe for what feels like a very long time.
Days after announcing his plans last May to return to Parliament, Mr Burnham – who has never been slow with pro-EU sentiments – insisted that failing to ‘respect’ the Leave vote would undermine democracy.
Yet a month later he was doing exactly that with alarmist noises about ‘ten years of political turbulence since Brexit‘. Now, in an extraordinary turn of events, he has refused to rule out the spectre of the electorate returning to the polls to vote on rejoining
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