Labour's Brexit conundrum
The Story18 Mai

Labour's Brexit conundrum

Andy Burnham, a potential leadership challenger to Sir Keir Starmer as PM, has said that re-running Brexit arguments is "the last thing we should do right now" after Wes Streeting put the EU back on the agenda. Ahead of one of the most significant by-elections in recent political history, could the Brexit debate define the future of the Labour party, as well as the country at large?


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  • Max Kendix, political correspondent for The Times
  • Joe Twyman, founder and director of Deltapoll

Host: Manveen Rana

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Read more: Keir Starmer latest: Wes Streeting’s EU stance ‘an attempt to derail Andy Burnham’

Further listening: Labour at war

Clips: BBC, Manchester Evening News, The Guardian

Photo: Shaun Parkinson and Getty Images.

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