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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Lisa O’Carroll

Labour seeking ‘deeper relationship’ with EU under Burnham, new minister says

Hamish Falconer standing with arms folded on a bridge over a canal in Lincoln
Hamish Falconer: ‘We have made some real initial progress on resetting but now we’ve got to deliver.’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

The UK will move faster and be more ambitious on achieving closer ties with Europe under Andy Burnham’s government, his new chief post-Brexit negotiator has said.

Hamish Falconer, the new cabinet minister in charge of the EU reset talks, said there was “room to be ambitious” within Labour’s red lines on Europe, which exclude reopening discussions on the single market and customs union, and he would look at the “art of the possible”.

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