Prime Minister Andy Burnham has declined to rule out Labour including a commitment to rejoin the European Union in its next manifesto. His comments matter because they suggest a possible major change in Labour’s Brexit stance and reopen debate over whether Britain should reverse its decision to leave.

Speaking to reporters while travelling to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Burnham said rejoining the EU was a question for “another day”. He also appeared to question the legitimacy of the 2016 referendum result, arguing that it had been influenced by “outside forces”; the article presents this as the subject of the Daily Mail’s reader poll.