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A move to change Aslef’s policy on Brexit – the train drivers’ trade union was the first to come out in favour of leaving the EU after a referendum was called by David Cameron – was decisively rejected at the Annual Assembly of Delegates in Leeds this week.
Christian Carroll, of Waterloo Nine Elms branch, argued: “The position to support the Leave campaign was not an anti-immigration, pro-competition, stance but a stance that sought to deliver a Lexit that would divorce us from the EU, which seeks to deliver a damaging Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership and Fourth Railway Package.
“We thought leaving would facilitate the nationalisation of our railways, and other essential public services, and allow the regulation of markets where necessary.
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