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Andy Burnham Slaps Down David Cameron After Ex-PM Warns Against Rejoining EU

Andy Burnham has slapped down David Cameron after the former Tory prime minister said Britain should not try to rejoin the bloc. Speaking more than a decade after he called the 2016 EU referendum, the Conservative peer warned this week that starting a conversation about rejoining the EU would be “very long and painful”. He also claimed the UK’s economic issues are unrelated to Brexit . But the current prime minister hit back: “I think he is wrong to say that the low growth…