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Shadow cabinet members ‘secretly want out of EU’

AT LEAST two members of the shadow cabinet privately want Britain to exit left from the European Union, the Morning Star can reveal.

Some 213 of Labour’s 231 MPs have signed up to support Labour In for Britain, which will be formally launched in Birmingham today by former home secretary Alan Johnson.

Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and every member of his shadow cabinet have joined the campaign, according to a list published by the group.

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