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Your support makes all the difference.Jeremy Corbyn has told Theresa May that Labour will support her if she abandons her Chequers plan and agrees to a softer Brexit.
He said his party would vote for a "sensible" deal that kept the UK in a customs union with the EU and guaranteed jobs and workers' rights.
The Labour leader also used his keynote speech to the party's annual conference in Liverpool to promise to fight antisemitism "with every breath I possess".
He told the Jewish community: "We are your ally."
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CORBYN SPEECH: Labour leader offers Brexit truce with May if her final deal is 'sensible' independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… #PeoplesVote #FinalSay
CORBYN SPEECH: Labour leader offers Brexit truce with May if her final deal is 'sensible' #PeoplesVote #FinalSay independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
A couple of thoughts about this Brexit offer that Jeremy Corbyn has made to Theresa May...(thread)....
Until now Labour’s position has been that it would only vote for Theresa May’s Brexit deal if it met Keir Starmer’s “six tests”...
A significant shift by Corbyn....or simply reassuring Labour Leave voters?Many pro-EU Labour MPs and activists leaving their conference will be wondering which.....
BUT NOW, Corbyn has said to the PM, through his speech, that he will have Labour vote for a Brexit deal she brings back if it is “sensible”......in his speech he didn’t mention the “six tests”...so what has happened?...
The two positions as set out by Starmer and Corbyn are the same in so far as they both say Labour could back May’s deal if it meets a particular threshold (six tests for Starmer, sensible for Corbyn)...but...
The two positions then differ on the clarity of that threshold (Corbyn’s is much more vague) and the likelihood it will be met (Starmer says probably not, Corbyn says maybe)...
The reason why Corbyn has chosen to use more vague language than Starmer’s, and indicated that Labour’s backing of May’s deal is more likely that Starmer suggested, can be found in the context of the political challenges Labour faces - the internal ones, and the external ones...
Starmer spent the week negotiating a finely balanced Brexit position - commuting to a new referendum, if May’s deal falls, and there is no general election - but markedly leaving open what that referendum would ask....everyone seemed happy but then...
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