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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels and Pippa Crerar

Sunak rejects von der Leyen’s comments that UK could rejoin EU

Ursula von der Leyen looking over her shoulder with EU flags in the background
Ursula von der Leyen said she had told her children that the next generation should ‘fix’ Brexit. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA

Rishi Sunak has rejected the suggestion that Brexit could be in peril after Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, claimed that the UK could be on a path to rejoining the European Union.

At an event in Brussels on Tuesday night, von der Leyen admitted that European leaders had “goofed up” over the departure of Britain from the bloc and suggested the younger generation could “fix” it.

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