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There is confidence among Constituency Labour Parties that tonight’s fiendishly complicated compositing process will result in a motion being put to conference tomorrow that contains a phrase like “Labour must reflect the overwhelming view of its members and voters, who...
want to stay in the EU, and Labour will therefore campaign energetically for a public vote and to stay in the EU in that referendum”. Which is anathema to @jeremycorbyn who wants his party to remain neutral in the coming general election between Remain and Leave. A source...
close to Corbyn tells me he expects the block vote of the unions to defeat that motion tomorrow when put to conference, although another source told me the two giant unions, Unison and Unite, are no longer as one and Unison may peel away from Unite and abstain. Either way it...
would be beyond words extraordinary for Corbyn to rely on the union block vote to crush the revealed will of party members, given that Corbyn has spent almost half a century campaigning for power over policies and personnel to be transferred to members. Some will see...
what Corbyn is doing as the great betrayal of his mentor and hero Tony Benn, who was the foremost champion in parliament of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy. That said, Benn hated the Common Market and EU. So perhaps for Corbyn euroscepticism trumps party democracy.
