By GB News (World News) | Created at 2026-10-02 11:41:01 | Updated at 2026-10-02 13:13:19
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Germany has vowed to do everything it can to aid Andy Burnham in rejoining the European Union and help reverse Brexit.
The vote to leave the EU achieved the largest democratic mandate for a single electoral choice in British history.
The German ambassador to the UK, Susanne Baumann, said Berlin would be a "partner" for a potential new relationship with the continent.
She told the Telegraph: "For us Germans, the UK is an integral part of Europe – its history, its present and its future.
"I was therefore glad to hear the Prime Minister speak about different options for the UK’s relationship with Europe.
"It is, of course, for the British people to decide how close they want that relationship to be. But let me be clear: in Germany you will always find a partner for setting the ambition as high as we can."
Germany has vowed to do everything it can to aid Andy Burnham in rejoining the European Union and help reverse Brexit
During a speech to Reform supporters in Doncaster yesterday, Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, said he was ready to "fight" Mr Burnham to ensure Britain stays out of the EU.
Speaking to GB News, the Reform leader accused the Prime Minister of “chopping and changing” over Brexit after he said he could not “leave Britain out” of discussions about a future relationship with the EU.
Mr Burnham said he would not seek to return Britain to the EU in May while campaigning in the Leave-voting Makerfield by-election.
The now-Prime Minister said at the time: "Our relentless focus now should be on domestic issues, and fixing our own underlying problems, rather than on re-running divisive arguments about rejoining the European Union."
The vote to leave the EU achieved the largest democratic mandate for a single electoral choice in British history
Speaking on this pledge, the Reform UK leader said: "He made it absolutely clear that rejoining the European Union, the single market, the customs union wasn’t even on the table… fast forward a few months and apparently everything is on the table.
"So he’s chopped and changed on this. He’s gone from a couple of years ago saying in his lifetime he wishes to rejoin, to saying to the voters in a by-election he doesn’t, to now showing his true colours.
"Perhaps he thinks that by doing this he can dig into the green vote; he can dig into the metropolitan vote."
Labour’s 2024 manifesto explicitly said Britain would remain outside the EU and ruled out a return to the single market, customs union and freedom of movement.
The Reform leader argued that the Prime Minister’s overtures to Brussels gave Reform a huge boost against Labour in the party’s now-contested heartlands.
He said: "I promise you, where I am right now in Doncaster or huge parts of the Red Wall, he has genuinely given Reform a huge opportunity."
"Here in the north, in the Midlands, it's got to be a straight two-horse contest. It'll be Reform versus Labour.
"Even attempting to go back down that road (on Brexit) hands us, I believe, a huge advantage."
