Corbyn hits out at Tony Blair’s Brexit intervention

JEREMY CORBYN has labelled Tony Blair’s call for pro-Europeans to form a new cross-party movement to reverse the outcome of the Brexit vote as unhelpful.

The Labour leader urged the former prime minister to “respect the result” of the vote to leave and to put his energy towards building relations in Europe.

Mr Corbyn, who was quizzed on the comments after addressing Labour’s local government conference at Warwick University, said: “Well, it’s not helpful.

“I would ask those to think about this – the referendum gave a result, a very clear decision on this, and we have to respect that decision. That’s why we didn’t block Article 50.

“But we are going to be part of all this campaigning, all these negotiations about the kind of relationship we have with Europe in the future.”

Mr Blair, speaking at the London HQ of Bloomberg on Friday, suggested that Labour had aided Brexit.