Andy Burnham Claims Brexit Might Have Been Avoided Under His Leadership of Labour

ANDY Burnham insists voters may never have voted for Brexit if he had become Labour leader ten years ago.

argued the 2016 referendum could have “played out differently” if he had beaten in the leadership contest.

, fighting , finished second in the fight for the party crown back in 2015.

He told the New Statesman: “I mean, this is gonna sound too much, and I kind of hesitate to say it, and maybe I shouldn’t, but I don’t know whether 2016 may have played out differently.

“I was always a voice inside, saying, look, I’m a Remainer, but we should be telling Cameron and Osborne, they’ve got to really get some serious changes.

“Would that have played out slightly differently if I was the sort of…”

He added: ‘My other half doesn’t give me credit for anything much in politics at all, she’s my fiercest – not critic, but, like, challenger – about things, and she thinks it might, yeah.

“She says, well, maybe it would’ve been different.’

Burnham said last year that he would like to within his lifetime.

But he vowed not to “re-run” arguments and is not proposing rejoining the bloc.

He said last month: “Britain will be stuck in a permanent rut if we’re just constantly arguing”.

He is expected to challenge if he .

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