UK’s former Brexit negotiator says Burnham should ditch much of Starmer’s EU reset if made PM – Europe live

The Guardian World Tuesday 23 June 2026, 09:48 UTC By Jakub Krupa 1 min read

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As UK marks 10 years since the EU referendum, David Frost says outgoing prime minister’s team ‘didn’t think hard enough about the choices and the processes’Meanwhile, we are also getting a dramatic update from France, with the country’s prime minister Sébastien Lecornu saying that forty people ⁠have drowned while swimming in unsupervised areas in France since the weekend. Much of France is under severe heat alert ⁠and set to experience temperatures around 40C on Tuesday, Meteo France said,...

As UK marks 10 years since the EU referendum, David Frost says outgoing prime minister’s team ‘didn’t think hard enough about the choices and the processes’

Meanwhile, we are also getting a dramatic update from France, with the country’s prime minister Sébastien Lecornu saying that forty people ⁠have drowned while swimming in unsupervised areas in France since the weekend.

Much of France is under severe heat alert ⁠and set to experience temperatures around 40C on Tuesday, Meteo France said, with temperatures of up to 43C expected in some parts of western France.

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