
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Britain could stay as it is, seek a customs union, rejoin the single market or "go all the way" to full EU membership, and will set out the options around the November UK-EU summit. This departs from Labour's 2024 manifesto, which ruled out the single market and customs union. No decision has been made, but a possible return of a major European state to the bloc would mark a step in the wider consolidation of power in Europe, a pattern Scripture describes in Daniel's vision of a final union of kingdoms.