BRITISH LABOUR SET TO PROMOTE SECOND BREXIT POLL

BRITAIN’S opposition Labour Party will reportedly vote to keep a second Brexit referendum on the table if Prime Minister Theresa May fails to push through Parliament her plan to leave the EU.

Earlier, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would back a second Brexit referendum if Labour voted to pursue the move at its annual conference, which started yesterday in Liverpool. However he said he preferred an election to a new referendum.

Labour was yesterday due to vote on a motion that, according to the BBC and Guardian newspaper, says: “If we cannot get a general election Labour must support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote.”

Britain is to exit the EU in March but little is clear after Mrs May’s plans for Brexit were resoundingly rebuffed by the EU on Thursday.

With talk of a new election and chances of a disorderly departure rising, the opposition party is under pressure to set the Brexit agenda.

Picture: AFP, AP, GETTY Anti-Brexit protesters march through Liverpool yesterday at the start of the conference of the Labour Party, headed by Jeremy Corbyn (inset).