Andy Burnham is convinced it is Brexit and Liz Truss that crushed Britain’s growth. Now he is confronting his own ‘moron premium’ – the high price that Britain must pay for borrowing.
Obsession by Burnham and, previously, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves with cosying up to the EU, thinking it will ease pressure on living standards in Britain, is nonsense.
Sure, there is stuff that we need. Exclusion from Europe’s €150billion defence fund is disgraceful. The UK is a key member of Nato and has some of the best avionics and defence tech in Europe.
Firms such as Cambridge Aerospace, with ground-breaking, low-cost, AI-driven interceptor tech for drones and ballistic missiles, are as much the future as big beasts of the sector.
Despite smiles at the Bayeux Tapestry unveiling at the British Museum, the UK will not receive much change from French President Emmanuel Macron on tricky issues such as ‘Made in Europe’.
