Burnham calls out Brexit failure: ‘The emperor has no clothes’

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‘The Brexit we were given has not worked,’ says the Prime Minister

“It’s like the Emperor’s new clothes – where no one is prepared to say the obvious truth,” he was set to say at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London on Monday evening.

“Well, I say it as I see it. And to be frank, the Emperor has nothing on.”

Mr Burnham has set Britain on a course for closer EU ties including possibly rejoining the European bloc.

With quitting the EU estimated to have wiped billions off Britain’s trade, he was due to stress: “The Brexit we were given has not worked.

London Mayor Lord Sadiq Khan has led Labour calls for the UK to become a member of the European Union again.

Ahead of a UK-EU summit on Friday in Brussels, Mr Burnham was set to lay out three conditions for an agreement:

* It must be consistent with Labour’s election manifesto and Government red lines, so no return to the Single Market, the Customs Union, or freedom of movement.

However, the PM has put all these options on the table in the longer term, and says he would like to see the UK back in the EU in his lifetime.

* It must improve the Brexit deal and bring it closer, in his view, to what people thought they were voting for in 2016, rather than the “hard Brexit that no one ever seriously argued for in the referendum”.

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