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1. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · XING YI, ZHENG WANYIN and EARLE GALE in London, ZHANG ZHOUXIANG in Brussels

   UK's attitude toward Brexit changing (opens the original)

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   Ten years after Britons voted to leave the European Union, a broad consensus has emerged that Brexit has weakened the United Kingdom's economy and international influence, even as the prospect of reversing it remains politically remote. The reevaluation of the nation's decision to leave the bloc has set up the tantalizing prospect of the UK eventually rejoining the EU, a possibility that gained a foothold when Andy Burnham took over as the UK's new prime minister on July 20. Burnham, a believer

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2. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Xing Yi

   Hopes, doubts and demands as Burnham takes power (opens the original)

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   By the time I arrived at Downing Street on Monday morning, the narrow street was already packed with journalists, photographers and broadcasters awaiting the transfer of power from Keir Starmer to Andy Burnham, the United Kingdom's seventh prime minister in a decade. I had arrived three hours before Burnham's scheduled speech, but I was too late. A security guard told me every media position had been allocated last week. We were not getting in. Outside the gates, the crowd continued to swell. Jo

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