英国前首相卡梅伦劝首相伯纳姆不要寻求重返欧盟：那将是漫长而痛苦的争论
英国前首相 David Cameron 11月11日在彭博社专访中劝现任首相 Andy Burnham 不要寻求让英国重新加入欧盟。他说，与其开启一场重返之争，不如专注于做欧盟「最好的朋友、最好的邻居、最好的伙伴」，因为重返之争「会是一场非常漫长、非常痛苦的争论，谁也不知道会走向何方」。
卡梅伦警告说，如果英国不断释放自己走在重返路上的信号，欧盟国家会认为英国反正要回来，没有必要给它一份好的伙伴协议，英国反而可能拿到更差的协议。他还表示，不认为重新加入关税同盟是正确的答案。
卡梅伦在2016年主持了脱欧公投并领导留欧阵营，公投失败后辞去首相职务。他在专访中说，他仍然认为脱欧可以成功，英国的经济问题与脱欧无关，源于过度支出、过度借贷、过度征税、繁文缛节与适龄人口福利开支。
伯纳姆把拉近与欧盟的关系作为首相任期的重点，定于11月12日赴都柏林推动更紧密关系，英国与欧盟定于11月20日在布鲁塞尔举行峰会。伯纳姆去年曾说希望在有生之年看到英国重返欧盟，今年5月又表示不想重开脱欧辩论。智库公共政策研究所同日发布报告，称重返欧盟是英国应对俄罗斯侵略、美国不可靠与中国胁迫的最佳办法，与卡梅伦的说法正好相反。
（来源：彭博社）
Former PM Cameron Urges Burnham Not to Seek EU Rejoining: It Would Be a Long and Painful Argument
Former British prime minister David Cameron urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham on November 11 not to pursue Britain's return to the European Union, in an interview with Bloomberg. Instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which he called "a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up," Britain should focus on being the EU's "best friend, best neighbour, best partner," he said.
Cameron warned that if Britain kept signalling it was on a path to rejoining, EU countries would see little point in offering a good partnership deal, and Britain could end up with a worse one. He also said he did not think rejoining the customs union was the right answer.
Cameron called the 2016 Brexit referendum and led the Remain campaign, resigning as prime minister after Leave won. He said he still believed Brexit could work, and that Britain's economic problems had "nothing to do with Brexit," blaming overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, red tape and working-age welfare.
Burnham has made closer EU ties a priority of his premiership. He is due in Dublin on November 12 to push for closer relations, ahead of a UK-EU summit in Brussels on November 20. He said last year he would like to see Britain rejoin the EU in his lifetime, while insisting in May that he did not want to reopen the Brexit debate. A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research published the same day argued the opposite of Cameron, calling rejoining the EU the best way for Britain to cope with Russian aggression, American unreliability and Chinese coercion.
(Source: Bloomberg)
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图片来源：图：英国前首相 David Cameron 2023年官方肖像（已预裁为16:9横幅，人物头部完整）。照片：英国政府，OGL 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Official 2023 portrait of former prime minister David Cameron (pre-cropped to 16:9 with head intact). UK Government, OGL 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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