Culture secretary says Streeting’s call for UK to rejoin EU is ‘odd’

Lisa Nandy told the BBC she did not understand ‘sudden focus on Europe’ from Labour leadership hopeful

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The UK culture secretary has dismissed calls for Britain to re-enter the European Union as “odd”, a day after her former cabinet colleague Wes Streeting said the country’s future lies back in the bloc.

Lisa Nandy criticised the former health secretary on Sunday, saying his comments over the weekend risked reopening a debate that was settled with the Brexit referendum 10 years ago.