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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell speaking at the Labour Party's annual conference today
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell’s firm declaration that any new referendum on the European Union should be confined to asking voters’ opinion on any deal or no-deal offered by Theresa May shows respect for both national democracy and party unity.
“We’ll be arguing that it should be a vote on the deal itself and then enable us to go back and do the negotiations,” he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
McDonnell understands that respecting the June 2016 referendum decision means nothing if it is accompanied by a demand for another referendum to overturn the first.
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