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LEN McCLUSKEY warned the Labour leadership today against “sitting on the fence” by ordering the party’s MPs to abstain in any vote on a post-Brexit trade deal.
The general secretary of the Unite union — Labour’s biggest donor — insisted it would be “completely wrong” for the party not to vote one way or the other should Britain and European Union agree on a deal.
His intervention coincided with Environment Secretary George Eustice saying that the negotiations aimed at reaching such an agreement are entering the “final few days.”
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
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