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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin

Union boss urges Burnham to forge closer ties with EU to undo damage done by Tories’ ‘bad’ Brexit deal

Britain’s most powerful union leader has told Andy Burnham that the “time is now” for a new agreement to develop closer ties between the UK and the EU, warning that “we're all paying the price for that bad Brexit deal” agreed under the Conservatives.

With a difficult Budget looming, Russia waging war on Ukraine and Donald Trump’s tariffs creating uncertainty for workers, the prime minister “has got to” use a key UK-EU summit later this year to strike a new deal with the bloc, Paul Nowak, the general secretary of the TUC said.

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