The Tory peer, who campaigned for Remain in the 2016 referendum and resigned within hours of Leave’s victory warned Mr Burnham against “a long and painful argument” about rejoining the bloc and said the UK’s economic problems had “nothing to do with Brexit”.
But Mr Burnham hit back, telling reporters: “I think he is wrong to say that the low growth that we’ve had over the last decade has quote ‘nothing to do with Brexit’. I would say the evidence says otherwise, and indeed the Treasury analysis says otherwise.”
Yesterday, Lord Cameron told Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain: “If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare.”
Mr Cameron previously warned every British family would be £4,300 per year worse off if the country voted to leave the EU.