Second EU referendum remains on the table, says Thornberry

Emily Thornberry insisted the option of campaigning for a second referendum remains on the table while also denying Labour is pursuing a “fantasy prospectus” over Brexit.

The shadow foreign secretary claimed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was explaining a referendum occurred in 2016 and his party were “democrats over and above everything else” when he replied that Brexit could not be stopped during an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel.

Appearing on BBC1’S The Andrew Marr Show, Ms Thornberry said: “Theresa May is simply giving us a devil in the deep blue sea – she’s saying you can either fall off a cliff or get on this bridge to nowhere, and you’re going to have to vote on that.

“That’s not a meaningful vote, that’s not an injection of democracy.

“So, we say if you’re going to give us that, we refuse to play that sort of game and, frankly, if you can’t come up with a decent suggestion then we should have a general election, if we don’t have a general election then yes, of course, all the options remain on the table and we would campaign for there to be a people’s vote.”

Picture: PA. Emily Thornberry is shadow foreign secretary.