Senior Labour figures were unhappy that the original Kyle-Wilson amendment implied backing for May’s deal and a Tory Brexit. McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, told ITV’s Peston that Labour would put forward its own amendment in favour of a second referendum when May puts her Brexit deal to a vote in the House of Commons. That is nowhere near enough to offset the Labour MPs who are not on board for whatever reason,” said one MP who intended to back any amendment for a second referendum. There is a path to a second referendum through parliament and that is what we are pushing the leadership to get to,” he said. But a Labour MP with a strongly leave-voting constituency said the numbers who were against a second referendum were far greater than they had previously encountered.

Source: The Guardian February 28, 2019 20:04 UTC