Andy Burnham’s EU reset ‘doomed to fail’ as PM ‘panics’ | Politics | News
Andy Burnham’s reset with the EU is “doomed to fail”, the Tories have warned. Alex Burghart, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, accused the Prime Minister of having “panicked” meetings to undo Sir Keir Starmer’s EU promises. The Prime Minister pushed for deeper ties between the UK and the European Union during a meeting with his Irish counterpart, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, on Friday. Meanwhile, on Friday, Chancellor John Healey pressed for the UK not to be shut out of the EU’s “made in Europe” plan during a meeting with EU finance ministers in Dublin. Mr Burghart said: “It is clear that Labour’s so-called ‘EU reset’ is not going as planned, with Andy Burnham having to hold panicked meetings with European leaders to row back on the red tape and regulations that Keir Starmer has happily ceded to the European Union. “This ‘reset’ is doomed to fail. It will not grow the economy and will harm industry and businesses across our country. But it doesn’t have to be this way.” Mr Martin became the first …
