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Where are they now? The ‘fake’ anti-Brexit activists at Labour Live
SOLOMON HUGHES discovers that supposed grassroots campaigners from Our Future Our Choice and For Our Future’s Sake who helped deliver Labour’s disastrous second referendum policy are now happily ensconced in pro-Brexit-type jobs
People's Vote campaigners outside MediaCityUK in Salford ahead of a debate between Conservative Party leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt

CAST your mind back to June 2018. You might remember lots of very friendly media reports of attempts to disrupt Labour Live, a big Labour rally in north London. 

The press all said this was a popular youth rebellion by pro-Labour “anti-Brexit” campaigners. But the most prominent of these “rebels” are now working for pro-Brexit Tories.

The Daily Mirror, for example, carried a very friendly report about protesters who unfurled a “Stop Backing Brexit” banner among the crowd in the outdoor festival, just as Jeremy Corbyn took to the stage. 

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