New campaign against EU membership launches ahead of UK-EU summit
Summary
Stay Out has launched a campaign opposing any future UK return to the European Union, arguing that membership would cost taxpayers and reopen disputes over Brexit. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is exploring closer ties with the EU and is expected to sign agreements on food, energy and youth mobility at a summit on 20 November.Key Facts
- Stay Out is chaired by Oliver Lewis, a former Vote Leave campaigner and former UK deputy chief negotiator in trade talks with the EU.
- Lord Gove, who chaired Vote Leave during the 2016 EU referendum, supports the campaign.
- Gove said rejoining the EU would involve another decade of difficult negotiations and the UK would give up control over laws, borders, money and trade.
- Stay Out claims EU membership would cost the UK £39.3 billion a year, or £750 million a week; those figures have not been independently verified.
- Burnham has said Brexit did more harm than good and wants to examine options for the UK’s long-term relationship with the EU.
- Burnham has ruled out major changes to the UK’s relationship with the EU before the next general election.
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