Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TORY BREXIT
A second vote ‘Party may lose heartlands’ What needs to happen...
amendment in favour of a public vote to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit being forced on the country.”
A senior Labour source confirmed: “We would rather vote for a second referendum than for her botched deal.”
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry claimed any fresh vote would be Remain versus the PM’S Brexit deal. And she said a second referendum
JEREMY Corbyn has been under intense pressure from his overwhelmingly Remain-supporting MPS and membership to back a People’s Vote.
Now he has finally done so — but it is probably too late to actually help deliver a second referendum. The numbers are not there. Two dozen of his own MPS are thought to be against it, fearing another will “break the logjam”. She said: “What she [Theresa May] wants to do is just get herself into a position whereby she says, ‘It’s my deal or no-deal.’
“We think both of those are disastrous and should go before the people.”
Tottenham MP David Lammy added: “Jeremy Corbyn is today taking the first step to reunite our party by showing he is listening to our voters and members poll would be too divisive. Only a handful of Tories want one, so even with SNP and Lib Dem votes it is very unlikely to pass.
But Labour MPS who met in a crowded Westminster room last night say the parliamentary party was more united on this, the biggest issue of our time.” But critics accused Mr Corbyn of ignoring the referendum result.
Bassetlaw MP John Mann warned him that people in the North “would never vote Labour again”.
Don Valley MP Caroline Flint said: “We cannot ignore
than for months. Corbyn was expected to face a storm over his handling of the antisemitism controversy and of centrist MPS quitting Labour. By pulling the secondvote rabbit out of the hat, he may have staved off more defections for now.
Some MPS in Leave-supporting seats say it would be electoral suicide — but that is unlikely to ever be properly tested. the millions of Labour voters who voted Leave.” But last week, eight Labour MPS quit the party claiming Mr Corbyn’s Brexit policy was a key factor. There were fears of more defections and he has come under pressure from figures such as Keir Starmer, Tom Watson and John Mcdonnell . Mr Corbyn’s frontbench has been split on Brexit, with around a dozen Shadow ministers thought likely to resign to vote against, while the vast majority of Labour members back a People’s Vote.
The party will table an amendment on its Brexit plan today which includes the UK staying in a customs union. Mr Corbyn is not expected to push for a vote on a second referendum until Mrs May’s EU exit deal returns on March 12. FIRST Labour would need to decide on an amendment to attach it to – possibly an existing amendment.
The party would then have to rally enough support from its own MPS to vote for the amendment.
It would also still need to convince Tory MPS who don’t like Mrs May’s deal to offer their support.
Experts say it would then take at least six months to organise a new referendum.
We would also need the EU’S approval to postpone Brexit to allow the vote.