David Cameron has claimed it would be a mistake for Andy Burnham to try and rejoin the European Union.
In the last couple of months, Burnham has reignited has reignited the Brexit debate by refusing to rule out the UK potentially rejoining the EU.
As evidence of Brexit’s disastrous economic impact on the UK continues to mount up and public support for a ‘Breturn’ grows, the prime minister has said he will look at all options for the country’s long-term relationship with the EU.
But now, David Cameron has decided to weigh in on the matter.
Cameron claims UK’s problems ‘have nothing to do with Brexit’
Despite being arguably the last voice anyone would want to hear from on this debate, the former Tory prime minister has thrown his two pence in – and reckons another referendum on EU membership isn’t the solution.
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Cameron said it would be a mistake for Burnham to seek to rejoin the EU and that the focus should instead be on improving relations with the EU.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Cameron, who campaigned for Remain in 2016, argued the economic problems facing Britain today “don’t have anything to do with Brexit at all.”
He continued: “Our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulating and spending far too much on working-age welfare.
“Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that is capable of getting spending under control, taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure.”
“None of those have got anything to do with Europe,” he added.
Of course, some would argue that the issues Cameron mentions weren’t helped, and in fact were likely caused in no small part, by the devastating impact Brexit has had on the UK’s economy and growth.
But hey, who are we to disagree with the genius who sparked a decade of division and chaos in Britain with the Brexit referendum in 2016?
Support for Brexit has hit the skids
Later this month, Burnham will head to the UK-EU summit, with the sole purpose of aligning Britain closer with its European neighbours. It’s understood that new agreements between both parties could be worth up to £17 billion – potentially undoing some of the Brexit-induced damage.
Since officially coming into effect in 2020, the barriers Brexit has posed to trade and business has been attributed to an economic slump in the UK, with some experts estimated that the country’s GDP took a hit of 6-8% over the past five years – equating to dozens of billions of pounds in lost revenue.
The longer it goes on, the more unpopular it becomes. Polling from IPSOS, released last week, shows that Brits are warmer on rejoining the bloc than ever before. Over 56% of participants said they would vote to reverse Brexit, with just three in 10 of these polled saying they wanted to stay out of the EU.