Labour minister Lisa Nandy, a close ally of mayor Andy Burnham, criticises fellow party figure Wes Streeting after he calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union. Nandy warns that Streeting’s comments risk “reopening the Brexit wars,” saying the idea is “a bit odd” roughly ten years after the 2016 referendum when the UK voted to leave the EU. The dispute reflects tensions within Labour about how to approach Brexit and the party’s future direction on EU membership. Streeting’s position, reported as a suggestion the UK could rejoin the EU, prompts Nandy to argue the debate should not return to the divisions created by the original Brexit process. The accounts describe Nandy framing the remarks as politically provocative and out of step with the time since the referendum result. Both reports focus on the exchange between Labour figures rather than any government policy change, portraying it as an internal party disagreement over EU membership rather than an external government initiative.