Labour MP’s EU vote warning to leader Corbyn
JEREMY Corbyn needs to “come off the fence” and back another vote on EU membership, according to one of his own MPs.
Ian Murray, the MP for Edinburgh South, said he believes a call for a People’s Vote could command a majority in the House of Commons if backed by the Labour frontbench.
Other parties have been pressing Mr Corbyn to call a motion of no confidence in Theresa May’s Government.
Labour, as the official Opposition, is the only party able to do so but Mr Corbyn has ruled out the move until he can be sure of winning.
Mr Murray said: “The Labour Party will have to come off the fence on that at some point pretty soon because I think what they’re trying to do might be incompatible with what’s available.
“There’s a majority of MPs that would stop a no-deal scenario from happening so that could be taken off the table.
“I think we can get a majority around a People’s Vote because we need to try and break the impasse between now and the 29th of March.”
Mr Murray cited a ‘growing number’ of Tory MPs warming to the idea as reason for backing the second vote calls and said that cross-party talks are ongoing to try and push for another EU referendum.
He added: “We do need to get the Labour frontbench into a position of a People’s Vote and if we can do that, I think we can command a majority in the House and I think that’s the best way to go.
“We’ve got to ask ourselves why we came into politics. I didn’t come into politics to make my constituents and the country poorer.”