Now, with divorce negotiations stuck and Britain due to leave in March, many Labour members think the party must change its course. The time has gone for sitting on the fence,” said Mike Buckley of Labour for a People’s Vote, a group campaigning for a new Brexit referendum. “We must back it if Labour members want it,” he told The Observer newspaper. “For Labour to adopt a second referendum policy would spell political disaster in all those Labour seats that voted leave,” said Brendan Chilton of the pro-Brexit group Labour Leave. He has denied it and condemned anti-Semitism, but the furor has angered many Jewish party members and their supporters.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 23, 2018 12:41 UTC