LONDON — U.K. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds insisted he is in agreement with the his boss Andy Burnham’s drive for closer European Union ties — a month after he warned re-litigating Brexit battles would cause “uncertainty” for business.
Reynolds told POLITICO at Labour conference that a return to the bloc’s customs union — one of the potential EU options floated by Burnham since then — would force “a whole range of alignment on regulatory issues” and warned that constant “constitutional questions” cause “a lot of uncertainty for business.”
But, challenged by Sky News Tuesday on whether Burnham was adding to that uncertainty by bringing the Europe issue to the top of the government agenda, Reynolds said: “I don’t disagree with the prime minister …