Thread by @adampayne26

Several pro-referendum Labour MPs/MEPs are gathering in Westminster tonight. Speakers include Owen Smith, Seb Dance, Louise Ellman, Wes Streeting.

Should be an interesting one...

Note: This is not some mysterious gathering I've got wind of. It's a rally organised by Remain Labour. But it'll be extra interesting in light of the NEC decision.

Owen Smith isn’t impressed by the NEC verdict - “I’d like to be a bit more positive about it than I feel I can be.” He says “procrastination” on Brexit will cost Labour swathes of European elections votes. “If we continue to stand in the middle of the road, we will get run down.”

Labour Daniel Zeichner MP: “If you support Brexit, you support the break-up of Britain.” He adds that there’s a “sad irony” of Brexit campaigners outside Westminster wearing Union Jacks as they support a policy which will lead to the loss of NI and Scotland from the UK.

Labour MP Phil Wilson: “We have to be unequivocal. We are a Remain party. We always have been, and we always will be. You can’t triangulate on something like this.”