September 24, 2026

Former long-term United Kingdom prime minister Tony Blair has called on the country's current government to pledge to rejoin the European Union within the next 10 years.

Blair, who led a Labour Party government from 1997 to 2007, said the time is right for UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to change the stance of today's Labour Party government on the 2016 referendum that led to the UK's exit from the EU in 2020, an event known as Brexit.

"Britain should signal an intention if the terms are right to enter into a structured formal relationship with Europe and initiate a process of negotiation where everything is on the table but nothing agreed until everything is agreed," Blair wrote in a foreword for a paper titled Beyond Leave and Remain: A Path to Rejoining a Reformed Europe that was published by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, or TBI.

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