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Andy Burnham warned cabinet ministers to stay silent on Brexit strategy while arguing the Conservative deal was harsher than the 2016 referendum promised.
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Tory Brexit was ‘harder’ than promised in EU referendum, says Andy Burnham
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Prime minister warns cabinet not to express opinions about future relationship with Brussels before review of optionsAndy Burnham has warned ministers not to express their opinions about how the government should approach Brexit, as he argued that the Conservatives’ deal with Brussels had been more extreme than that promised in the 2016 referendum.In another series of announcements connected to his plan to seek closer links with the EU, Burnham told ministers at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the current deal was a bad one, before writing to frontbenchers setting out his hopes to address this. Continue reading...
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