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GMB called today for a second referendum on withdrawal from the EU, saying that it respected 2016’s vote to leave the bloc but that “how we leave is as important as the decision to leave in the first place.”
General secretary Tim Roache said a “Tory hard Brexit” would be a “disaster” for GMB members, and he was calling for the government to put any deal it strikes with Brussels to the electorate so people could decide “what sort of Brexit is the right Brexit.”
The general union is by far the largest trade union to back a second referendum on the terms of departure, as promoted by the People’s Vote campaign, so far.
The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
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
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026