British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he wants a discussion about returning to the European Union’s freedom of movement rules for workers, a key issue in the 2016 Brexit referendum which led to Britain leaving the bloc.
Building on previous comments about the need to rethink ties with Brussels, Burnham told the Sunday Times that the influx of EU workers into Britain before Brexit had posed very significant challenges. “But, at the same time, it was a type of immigration that perhaps wasn’t as difficult (as now),” he said.
“Revolving door migration where people would come and then go back is different. The balance of migration has changed, hasn’t it, since then? I think we\u2019ve just got to have an honest discussion about those things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he wants a discussion about returning to the European Union’s freedom of movement rules for workers, a key issue in the 2016 Brexit referendum which led to Britain leaving the bloc.Building on previous comments about the need to rethink ties with Brussels, Burnham told the Sunday Times that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n