Top of Labour in row over EU as Nandy challenges Streeting’s remarks

Wes Streeting and Lisa Nandy. Their row indicates the divisions within Labour as it heads into a byelection that could determine the government’s fate. Composite: Getty Images

A row has broken out at the top of the Labour party over whether Britain should try to rejoin the EU after Wes Streeting said the country should eventually seek to regain membership.

Streeting, who resigned as health secretary on Thursday in protest at Keir Starmer’s leadership, kicked off a war of words after he argued on Saturday that Britain’s future lay back in the EU.