Nandy Attacks Streeting for Rejoin EU Proposal
Lisa Nandy criticized Labour colleague Wes Streeting for proposing the UK rejoin the EU, arguing the focus should be on repairing Brexit's damage rather than revisiting past debates. She emphasized that while she supported remaining in the EU, reopening the issue ignores legitimate concerns from 2015. Nandy stressed the need for pragmatic solutions instead of rehashing old arguments.
- ▪Lisa Nandy criticized Wes Streeting's proposal for the UK to rejoin the EU.
- ▪She stated she supported remaining in the EU but questioned the timing and relevance of the rejoin debate.
- ▪Nandy argued that focusing on the EU distracts from repairing the damage caused by Brexit.
- ▪She highlighted that conditions in towns like Wigan in 2015 were not acceptable and should not be ignored.
- ▪Nandy advocated for pragmatic solutions over reopening divisive political debates.
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“I actually think this is just a bit odd… I campaigned for remain, I think it was a mistake… but I don’t really understand why the sudden focus on Europe. We’re already as a government trying to repair in a pragmatic way the enormous damage done by the poor Brexit deal to towns like mine without reopening the circular arguments that we ended up in as a country. And frankly if the answer to all of this was the EU then essentially we’d be saying to people what was going on in 2015 in towns like Wigan was absolutely fine – well I can tell you it wasn’t.”
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