Top members of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's shadow government argued at their annual conference Sunday that they were a fundamentally European party with an obligation to get the 2016 Brexit referendum results reversed.But unions and a powerful leftist lobby that helped Corbyn become Labour leader in 2015 want the party to embrace its working-class base of supporters who back Britain charting its own course.
"We must not just campaign to remain but we must lead the campaign to remain," Labour's foreign affairs spokeswoman Emily Thornberry argued on the sidelines of the party gathering in the south coast resort city of Brighton. "Please remember why people voted leave, why people voted remain, but also remember there is more that unites all of those people - over austerity, over investment, over education, over housing, over health, over a green industrial revolution - than there is that divides them," Corbyn told the BBC.READ: What next in Britain's Brexit crisis?
Labour would then stage a second referendum in which voters would be given the choice of either backing the new Brexit agreement or staying in the EU.
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