Andy Burnham’s pledge to move closer to the EU could leave the UK “crawling back to 70% of where we were 10 years ago,” former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara has said.
Mr Burnham, who is set to become the prime minister on 20 July, previously said that he seeks to ‘consolidate the progress made on the existing UK-EU negotiations’, and to ‘strengthen UK-EU co-operation on illegal migration and economic security’. The ex-mayor has also pledged ‘growth in every postcode’ and laid out plans to devolve government powers to local authorities.
