Voting for “blah blah blah”

3 Apr 2018 10:52 AM

A new question mark has opened up over the Labour Party's Brexit policy. Open Europe's Henry Newman assesses whether Labour will support a future UK-EU agreement when a deal makes its way to the Parliament.

The Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, told an event at Chatham House (last week) that Labour would “probably pass” the Brexit vote, even if – as she predicted – the Government had only achieved a “blah blah blah divorce” by October. This was quite a significant admission and provoked a quick row with Labour backbenchers.

See Open Europe’s website for full article