UK PM calls for 'honest discussion' about EU free movement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The Labour prime minister has promised to lay out different options for closer relations with Europe around the time of a long-awaited UK-EU summit in Brussels next month.
55% : Burnham and EU leaders are hopeful of striking deals on food and drink, youth mobility and emissions tradings when they meet on November 20.
51% : Burnham said immigration into Britain had been "different" since the country left the EU in early 2020.
50% : UK leader Andy Burnham indicated he was open to readopting the European Union's free movement rules as part of Britain's future relationship with the bloc, said a report published Sunday.
50% : That means he may seek to win a mandate for any major change in Britain's relationship with the EU at the next general election, which is currently not expected until 2029.
49% : Immigration was one of the main reasons for Britons voting narrowly to leave the EU during the divisive 2016 referendum that was triggered by the right-wing Conservatives.
47% : Burnham, who has even touted the possibility of Britain applying to rejoin the EU one day, said the country should have an "honest discussion" about how immigration to the UK has changed since Brexit.
35% : Burnham told the Sunday Times he "can't see myself ever recommending anything that would involve joining" the euro or the Schengen borderless area, which the UK was not a part of pre-Brexit. Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigrant Reform UK party, called Burnham's comments on free movement a "total betrayal of Brexit Britain".

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