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TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said today that Labour should back a second Brexit referendum, with voters choosing between staying in and fighting for reform and leaving the European Union with a “Norway-plus” deal.
The travel union leader called for the party to hold a special conference to decide its policy on the EU question, arguing that, if it backs the option of a second popular vote, this stance would not be ignoring Leave voters.
Mr Cortes’s statement contrasts with a warning by Unite leader Len McCluskey that, if Labour backs a second Brexit vote, people who voted Leave could feel betrayed.
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN