Jeremy Corbyn in Brussels yesterday with Seumas Milne, his communications director, for a meeting of European socialist parties. Mr Corbyn said that the latest deal was worse than Theresa May’s PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW/REUTERSRemainer MPs appeared last night to be backing away from forcing a vote on a second referendum tomorrow, despite winning the right to table amendments to Boris Johnson’s Brexit motion in the Commons. Although Labour now backs a second referendum in all circumstances, the party refused to confirm that it would use the historic Saturday sitting to try to impose a “confirmatory” vote condition on the prime minister’s deal getting through parliament. Shortly after the agreement was revealed, Jeremy Corbyn said that it was “an even worse deal than Theresa May’s”, which risks “triggering a race to the bottom on rights and protections: putting food safety at risk, cutting environmental standards and workers’ rights and opening up our NHS to a takeover by US private…

Source: The Times October 17, 2019 23:01 UTC