{"id":966343,"date":"2026-05-17T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966343\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:35:18","slug":"labour-brexit-civil-war-erupts-as-lisa-nandy-launches-scathing-attack-on-wes-streetings-plea-to-rejoin-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966343\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Brexit civil war erupts as Lisa Nandy launches scathing attack on Wes Streeting&#8217;s plea to rejoin EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Nandy appeared to have opened the door to a Labour civil war on Brexit as she accused Wes Streeting of a \u201cfundamental misreading\u201d of the public mood. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing his intentions to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership yesterday, the former Health Secretary called for the UK to rejoin the EU 10 years after the referedum. <\/p>\n<p>Recating the speech of GB News, Ms Nandy described her colleague\u2019s stance as \u201ca bit odd\u201d in the wake of their party\u2019s local election drubbing to Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK and Zack Polanski&#8217;s Green&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got an absolute kicking at the poles, and it hurt, and it still hurts,\u201d she told Camilla Tominey.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cTo respond to that with reentering the European Union seems to me to be a fundamental misreading of what people are asking us for,\u201d the Culture Secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf going back into the EU was the answer to the problems that people have in their lives, then we would be telling people in towns like mine that everything was fine in 2015. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt absolutely wasn&#8217;t,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n<p>However, Camilla pushed Ms Nandy on Keir Starmer\u2019s own EU reset deal and on Andy Burnham&#8217;s apparent interest in rapprochement with Brussels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"01895\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d25dff623d8b88a6044b001299874731\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201920%201080'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/lisa-nandy.png\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"Lisa Nandy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Nandy has accused Wes Streeting of a &#8216;fundamental misreading&#8217; on the public mood on Brexit <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>GB NEWS<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI can say to you, like, hand on heart, that having spoken to the Prime Minister several times over the last week and been out campaigning with Andy in Makerfield yesterday, that the conversation was not about the European Union. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we want to repair some of the damage we did with that really poor Brexit deal that harmed people&#8217;s living standards. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the answer to people&#8217;s problems is about making sure that people have good jobs that pay a decent wage, that they have opportunities for their kids to get on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to get on investing in our towns so that people have spending power on the high streets, and we don&#8217;t have boarded up shops and vape shops,\u201d the Culture Secretary insisted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Nandy appeared to have opened the door to a Labour civil war on Brexit as she accused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,69593,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,528,285,6226,16,3106,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-966343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-camilla-tominey","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-labour-party","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-presenters","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-uk-politics","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116589240610212227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}