UK needs ‘national consensus’ over rejoining EU, David Miliband says

Ex-foreign secretary urges reset at higher dosage' after officials revealed to have pitched single market for goods

Britain needs a national consensus" about rejoining the European Union, David Miliband has said, in response to revelations that the UK government pitched the creation of a single market for goods with the EU to the bloc.

The former foreign secretary, who is now president of the International Rescue Committee, said he thought the UK needed a reset of its relations with the EU at a much higher dosage" than the government was planning.