Rishi Sunak has slapped down Ursula Von der Leyen, after she suggested the UK can reverse Brexit, saying she can “fix” it.
The EU Commission chief suggested she thinks the UK will rejoin the EU and return to “old friends”.
Asked if she thinks Britain will ever rejoin the EU, the Commission President said: “First of all, thank God. With the Windsor agreement, we had a new beginning for old friends. Very important.”
Ursula Von der Leyen admitted she wants to “fix” Brexit, suggesting she thinks the UK will rejoin the EU and return to “old friends”.
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Asked if she thinks Britain will ever rejoin the EU, the Commission President said: “First of all, thank God. With the Windsor agreement, we had a new beginning for old friends. Very important.”
The UK signed the Windsor Framework agreement with the EU earlier this year as an attempt to prevent a hard border with Ireland and smoothe the flow of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
Speaking to Politico, Von der Leyen added: “And then I must say, I keep telling my children, you have to fix it.
“We goofed it up. You have to fix it.
“So I think here, too, the direction of travel, my personal opinion is clear.”
Asked if Sunak agrees with von der Leyen, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “No”.
He added: “It’s through our Brexit freedoms that we are, right now, considering how to further strengthen our migration system.
“It is through our Brexit freedoms we are ensuring patients in the UK can get access to medicines faster, that there is improved animal welfare. That is very much what we are focused on.”
Asked if Brexit was in peril, the offical said: “No.”
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Sunak’s press secretary added: “We have a Prime Minister who championed Brexit before it was in his career interest to do so because he believes in it passionately.
“We are very focused on making a success of it.”
