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Labour back amendment for final say

By 25 February 2019September 8th, 2022No Comments

Responding to the Labour leadership’s tabling of a frontbench amendment that instructs the Prime Minister to negotiate the key elements of Labour’s alternative Brexit plan, city MP Stephen Morgan said:

“The Prime Minister is recklessly running down the clock, in an attempt to force MPs to choose between her failed Brexit deal and a disastrous no deal. I cannot, and will not, accept that on behalf of the people of Portsmouth.

If Labour’s alternative Brexit plan for a comprehensive and permanent customs union fails to win majority support in the House of Commons this week, tonight the party has set out it will put forward or support an amendment in favour of a public vote in order to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit.

I’ve been arguing for some time both locally and nationally that putting the decision back to the people for a final say, in a public vote, with the option to stay and keep the deal we already have, while at the same time ruling out a catastrophic no deal, is the right thing for Portsmouth. 

I therefore welcome tonight’s confirmation by the party’s leadership. We cannot afford to leave the biggest decision our country is facing since the Second World War in the hands of this failing Government.

People in Portsmouth must have their say”.

These commitments confirmed tonight underline that Labour accepts the referendum result, and would seek to negotiate a better deal, but also that the party will do everything in its power to prevent no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit.