Lammy dismisses Streeting’s call for UK to rejoin EU as ‘sixth form’ debating position – UK politics live

Deputy PM says the public will not forgive weeks of internal debate on the EU and Labour leadership, warning it will play into Reform’s hands The Labour MP Jonathan Hinder told the Today programme this morning that for Wes Streeting to suggest the UK should rejoin the EU was a “staggering level of out of touch”.Hinder said:We are just over a week after we took a real beating in our working-class heartlands.It’s a very long list – we’re talking about the Hartlepools, the Grimsbys, Barnsley, places like Wigan, where this byelection is going to be, and we were losing to a party [Reform UK] which until recently was called the Brexit party. Continue reading...