JEREMY CORBYN’s plan to offer a “compromise” to Leave and Remain voters in a new Brexit referendum was warmly received today by Momentum and acknowledged as a step forwards by Lexit campaign group Leave Fight Transform (LeFT).

The Labour leader said that his party in government would negotiate a “sensible” withdrawal agreement with the EU before putting it to a vote alongside the option to remain.

Mr Corbyn suggested he could be neutral in that referendum campaign, but would implement the electorate’s decision.

This would happen after an extension to Article 50 is secured until next year, with the plan being to prevent Prime Minister Boris Johnson from leading the country out of the EU without a deal on Halloween.

Mr Corbyn said: “A Labour government would secure a sensible deal based on the terms we have long advocated, including a new customs union with the EU; a close single market relationship; and guarantees of workers’ rights and environmental protections.

“We would then put that to a public vote alongside Remain.

“I pledge to carry out whatever the people decide, as a Labour prime minister.”

His plan was met with criticism from Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, who has changed her party’s policy this week from campaigning for a second referendum to revoking Article 50 and overriding the 2016 result without a vote.

She accused Mr Corbyn of wanting to “sit on the sidelines” and “betraying Remain voters.”

But grassroots Labour group Momentum said that the tricky issue of Britain leaving the EU should be “handled delicately.”

A spokesperson said: “Labour is offering another referendum with Remain as an option.

“Simply revoking Article 50 creates more problems than it solves.”

LeFT’s Sarah Cundy told the Star that the campaign group was “glad” to welcome Labour moving on from its “backwards position of campaigning for Remain over their own deal.”

“Labour is hopefully finally realising the necessity to respect Leave voters by not forcibly campaigning for Remain in a second referendum,” she added.

“But if Labour are to retain working-class support Labour MPs need to respect not only the will of the people but also the mandate to respect the result of the referendum on which they were all elected in 2017.

“Leave Fight Transform stand by our position that we don’t need a second referendum, we need a general election with Labour standing on a ticket of leaving the EU, respecting democracy, and implementing radical socialist policies.”