Could the UK really rejoin the EU?

The big question facing ​A​ndy Burnham is not whether Brexit has harmed Britain, but if a rapidly changing Europe will keep the door open​ if the UK decides it wants back in • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It was lobbed into the national conversat

The big question facing ​A​ndy Burnham is not whether Brexit has harmed Britain, but if a rapidly changing Europe will keep the door open​ if the UK decides it wants back in • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It was lobbed into the national conversation without fanfare or warning, almost a footnote in the UK prime minister’s first speech as leader to his governing Labour party’s annual conference. But Andy Burnham has kicked off a quiet U-turn on Brexit.

By stating bluntly that the decision to leave Europe’s core political community had done “more harm than good”, Burnham broke a taboo in his own party, in effect, discarding his predecessor’s paralysing ‘red lines’ on Europe, and signalling he will not be bound by these constraints after the next British election. Continue reading...