Andy Burnham has confirmed he is open to reversing Brexit and could push for Britain to rejoin the European Union after the next election, as he said all options are “on the table” for Britain’s future relationship with the bloc.

The Prime Minister said on Wednesday Morning: “There are clearly options that need to be considered, and we have to look at what is doable and what would be the pros and cons of each.”

He added: “We could stay as we are. That’s definitely an option, if people think this is the right place to stay.”

The Labour leader pointed to options floated by former Chancellor George Osbourne around the customs union, as well as the Liberal Democrats suggestion around the single market.

“We could go all the way,” Burnham suggested to BBC’s Today Programme, in a move that would overturn the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union.

The comments follow his wide-ranging speech at the Labour party conference on Tuesday, where he made a number of sweeping big political pledges related to the next election.

Burnham: Brexit has done more harm than good

The Prime Minister used his conference speech to rip into Brexit, where he claimed it had done “more harm for good”.

He added the forthcoming UK-EU summit,  which was originally scheduled for 22 July before the leadership change, will forge closer ties with the 27-state bloc after finding the current relationship was not “good enough”.

Burnham said he would “find consensus” on an option to clarify the UK’s position, but has not offered any specific detail on how this will be reached.

Alex Burghart, deputy leader of the Conservative Party, said: “Labour cannot pin the blame for their disastrous economic decisions on a vote that happened over a decade ago.

“Besides, they are already dragging us into the European Union via the back door with their EU reset.”

The indication of closer ties follows attempts from Sir Keir Starmer to forge closer ties during his premiership. As part of last year’s routine five year review of the UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement, which was signed in 2020, Starmer pledged a “reset” of relations.

Hamish Falconer, minister of state for intergovernmental relations and European relations, told delegates at the party conference that Burnham wanted to go “further and faster” in rebuilding links with the European Union.

“[Burnham] thinks Europe is an important question for the UK, that Brexit has not been a success, and so he is quite rightly sending me off with an ambitious set of instructions to try and get us closer to Europe faster,” he told an event hosted by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.