{"id":50704,"date":"2026-10-12T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/burnham-claims-eu-summit-could-boost-growth-and-help-control-illegal-migration-uk-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:41:24","slug":"burnham-claims-eu-summit-could-boost-growth-and-help-control-illegal-migration-uk-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/burnham-claims-eu-summit-could-boost-growth-and-help-control-illegal-migration-uk-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham claims EU summit could boost growth and help control illegal migration \u2013 UK politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prime minister tells MPs the next summit with the EU will be held on 20 November<\/p>\n

Burnham to urge MPs to embrace closer ties with EU<\/a><\/p>\n

Zia Yusuf<\/strong>, Reform UK\u2019s home affairs spokesperson, is speaking now. He started his speech with an account of a 73-year-old woman dying in North Wales after having to wait 23 hours for an ambulance, and he sought to link this to immigration.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates that 15,000 people across Britain died last year due to excess wait times for emergency treatment. That\u2019s 300 people a week, 300 lives destroyed, 300 families devastated.<\/p>\n

And that number has increased tenfold over the last decade. This is a moral outrage, and it is a direct result of decisions made by Tory and Labour governments.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that\u2019s because he wants to have a fight over the European Union. I think that\u2019s because he knows what we\u2019re talking about today impacts hard in what is known as the red wall.<\/p>\n

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The prime minister tells MPs the next summit with the EU will be held on 20 November Burnham to urge MPs to embrace closer ties with EU Zia Yusuf, Reform UK\u2019s home affairs spokesperson, is speaking now. He started his speech with an account of a 73-year-old woman dying in North Wales after having to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 17:18:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}