With eyes set on November 20, when the European Union and the United Kingdom will hold a new summit in Brussels to seal a pact cooked up by former premier Keir Starmer, the current British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, assured the Commons this Monday: "I do not intend to reopen the [Brexit] referendum." But, at the same time, in a verbal pirouette that practically implies a double negative – and therefore, an affirmation – he has left the door open to any possibility.