# Andy Burnham says Tory Brexit was ‘harder’ than promised in referendum

https://mins.news/en/item/119492

- The Guardian, 2026-10-28 16:45 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/28/tory-brexit-harder-promised-referendum-andy-burnham

> Andy Burnham said the Conservatives’ Brexit deal with Brussels was more extreme than what voters were promised in the 2016 referendum and bad for the UK. He told ministers not to advocate specific options for future relations with the EU before a review of longer-term choices.

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