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Corbyn seeks support for Labour Brexit proposals ahead of Commons vote

JEREMY CORBYN has asked MPs to back Labour’s Brexit proposals which will be debated tomorrow after he took PM Theresa May to task for delaying the parliamentary vote on her withdrawal deal for a second time.

In the Commons today, he said Labour will table an amendment to the government’s motion with proposals that the European Union has said would be “workable and negotiable.”

The party is proposing a new customs union, close alignment with the single market and keeping pace with the EU protections for workers, consumers, and the environment.

This came after Ms May postponed today’s “meaningful vote” on her Withdrawal Agreement. She announced that MPs could instead have a “meaningful vote” on her Brexit package by March 12.

If her deal is not approved then, MPs would vote the following day on whether to leave EU on a no-deal basis. If that is rejected, they would vote on whether to extend Article 50.

“If we had to, we could make a success of a no-deal,” she said.

The sequence of votes will be proposed in an amendable motion tabled by Ms May for debate and vote in the Commons tomorrow.

But Mr Corbyn said he has “lost count” of how many times she has postponed a parliamentary vote on her unpopular deal.

The first vote was scheduled for December but pushed back to January, when her deal was roundly rejected by a majority of 230 votes.

In response to her latest postponement, Mr Corbyn commented: “They say history repeats itself first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. By the umpteenth time, it is grotesquely reckless.”

He also announced that if Ms May’s Brexit deal gets through Parliament, then Labour would back a second referendum.

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