Andy Burnham says Brexit results have not "played out as people said it would" on immigration

In an ITV Good Morning Britain interview, Andy Burnham said he hopes the UK rejoins the EU during his lifetime but would not restore EU freedom of movement without a referendum. Asked about the decade since Brexit, he said the results had diverged from earlier forecasts, especially on immigration, and that the present deal fell short; he also said reduced ability to remove people had contributed to the small-boats issue. Burnham said he was not proposing changes in this Parliament and would keep Labour’s manifesto limits, including no return to freedom of movement, the single market or customs union. He suggested a future Labour manifesto could revisit freedom of movement and ruled out an early general election. Downing Street later said the government was not yet setting out a process on a referendum.