Andy Burnham’s plans could bring the UK closer to Europe than he realises

The new PM’s priorities are domestic, but he will soon realise that closer engagement with the EU is a no-brainer What will European leaders make of Andy Burnham, the seventh UK prime minister they have had to deal with in a decade of chronic political instability in London unleashed by the fateful 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union? The “king of the north” is largely an unknown quantity in continental Europe and has given priority to a domestic agenda of devolving powers to regions and cities and extending state control of vital industries rather than to foreign policy. He may i