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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn deliver a speech during the Scottish Trades Union Congress "Fighting for our Future" march and rally in the town square in Kirkcaldy
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.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
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
