Blair presses Burnham to back return to a reformed EU

LONDON — Britain should seek to rejoin a reformed European Union within the next decade, ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a report published Thursday. In the foreword to a paper published by his think tank, the ex-Labour leader said Britain “must be in the room shaping Europe’s future.” The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change argues Britain’s return to the bloc should be a “cornerstone” of the U.K. government’s upcoming 10-year plan — but only if Brussels is serious about reform. New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham promised when he took office in July that he would lay out his vision for the next decade later this year In the report, Blair writes: “We should be clear that we want back into a formal relationship with the EU.