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Vote down Johnson’s deal and let Labour take over
Only Labour has the strategy to unite Leavers and Remainers and deliver a better quality of life for all, says MATT WILLGRESS

IT HAS often felt since the EU referendum that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour can please nobody when it comes to Brexit. 

This is despite the fact that, as the commentator Maya Goodfellow put it in December 2017, “Labour didn’t cause Brexit, is not in charge of it and yet the party has the shrewdest position.”

In fact, since 2016, the central point of the Labour leader’s stance has been clear.

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