UK: Labour MPs free to campaign for either Brexit or Remain if second referendum happens

[RandySF]

Labour MPs and members of a Jeremy Corbyn government will be free to campaign on either side in the EU referendum which the party plans for June 2020 if it wins next month’s general election, John McDonnell has revealed.

The party has previously said that it will hold a special conference in the spring to decide which side Labour will back in the referendum, but the shadow chancellor’s comments reveal that MPs will not be required to campaign in line with that decision.

The move echoes former prime minister Harold Wilson’s decision to allow his MPs to campaign on both sides of the original referendum on Common Market membership in 1975, and sets the scene for large numbers of Labour members – probably including senior figures like McDonnell, Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry – to fight for Remain against whatever deal Mr Corbyn manages to obtain.

Mt Corbyn announced on Friday that he will remain “neutral” between Remain and Leave in any referendum, which would take place after a Labour-led government renegotiated the Brexit deal with Brussels.



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-brexit-second-referendum-corbyn-mcdonnell-general-election-a9215486.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1574587260

[ritapria]

1. Corbyn will remain Neutral on a Brexit Treaty he negotiated ?

If I were a Brit , I would vote Labour but this stand by Jeremy is loony Tunes ...Well , it looks like 5 Years for BoJo at No. 10 … 5 more years of Austerity .….So sad .