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Burnham cited the 2016 EU referendum and the 2014 vote on Scottish independence.<\/p>\n

“What we find is that the risks that come from those situations take a long time to heal and it sets you right back, and you can’t focus on what’s right in front of us here and now,” he added.<\/p>\n

“The cost-of-living pressures that are hurting people in Northern Ireland, the need to get that budget set so that public services can function as they should.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “A decade since the Brexit referendum I think we’ve had too much division, too much arguing, too much backward-looking.<\/p>\n

“We need to fix the things right in the here and now.”<\/p>\n

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Gavin Robinson welcomed the opportunity to engage with the prime minister.<\/p>\n

He said Burnham’s remarks on a border poll were “particularly encouraging” and were “putting to bed the nonsense” discussed in recent months.<\/p>\n

Robinson said “clearly there are issues” around the budgetary settlement for Northern Ireland and it would form a key part of the DUP’s talks with the prime minister.<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald said the Irish republican party’s delegation had a “very frank and very forthright” meeting with Burnham following his remarks in which he ruled out a referendum.<\/p>\n

“We have put it to him very strongly that burying his head in the sand is not a plan, not a strategy, not wise and not acceptable to us,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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