Jeremy Corbyn told colleagues at a fractious and inconclusive shadow cabinet meeting on Wednesday that he had been reading Harold Wilson’s autobiography to gather inspiration about Labour’s Brexit position. However, others said they remained concerned that any shift would be too little, too late to win back disgruntled voters. As the shadow cabinet gathered on Wednesday, 26 Labour MPs wrote to Corbyn, warning him that embracing a second Brexit referendum would be “toxic to our bedrock voters”. “The recent elections don’t suggest any change to this basic arithmetic, given the geographical distribution of leave and remain voters,” the analysis said. The MPs also pointed to the result of the Peterborough byelection, a seat Labour held with a small majority over Nigel Farage’s Brexit party.

Source: The Guardian June 19, 2019 15:21 UTC