Thread by @faisalislam

This appears to be a significant intervention - but appears to have been made in a letter to other members of the Shadow Cabinet - ahead of emergency meeting tonight.

https://twitter.com/GuardianHeather/status/1113477323708346369

NEW - I’ve obtained full letter from the shadow Foreign Secretary to the shadow Cabinet ahead of the meeting - she calls for a vote in SC about a confirmatory public vote, with Remain as an option, says she will vote for both,

1. “if we look like reaching any other decision than confirmatory vote that would be in breach of the decision made unanimously by Conference in Liverpool and overwhelmingly supported by our members and it needs to be put to a vote by the Shadow Cabinet.”

2. “The reason I think that is fundamental is that - if that is the outcome -those of us who oppose it can only take collective responsibility for the decision - & defend it in public and on the media - if we are having to go along with what was democratically agreed between us”.

3. “whether we personally agreed or not, especially given the breach of our commitments to our members at conference.

The Tory Cabinet had that kind of vote after their eight-hour discussion yesterday so I think it’s least we should be doing after 1-hour discussion this eve”

4. “assuming all colleagues will agree with that principle, and given my absence, can I - in writing - confirm that my votes are that yes, any deal agreed by Parliament must be subject to a confirmatory public vote, and yes, the other option on the ballot must be Remain”.

So Thornberry says that not to ”insist” on a confirmatory public vote on any proposed compromise deal would be a “breach of our commitments to our members at conference”.

Ahead of emergency shadow cabinet @JeremyCorbyn asked in my broadcast pool clip
“It was raised by me at the beginning of the meeting that this is a policy of our party that we would want to pursue the option of a public vote to prevent crashing out or leaving with a bad deal”