BREXIT BETRAYAL: Labour MPs sneak in backdoor and FORCE corbyn to keep borders open
LABOUR MPs are plotting to push for Britain to never leave the European Union as a scheme is being drawn up to force Jeremy Corbyn to keep borders open ahead of the party conference.
Tom Watson confirms 'Labour are the party of soft-Brexit'
An influential group of pro-Remain MPs including David Lammy, Tulip Saddiq and Corbyn ally, Clive Lewis, have backed a campaign to force Jeremy Corbyn’s team to take an even softer approach to Brexit.
Remainer MPs and members are mobilising to push their agenda to remaining in the single market and commit to Brussel’s controversial freedom of movement policy after the proposed four-year transitional deal.
The Labour campaign for freedom of movement has already prepared a draft resolution urging the party to commit to open borders, ahead of their conference on September 24-27th.
Britain and the EU should welcome migration across Europe and from beyond
The resolution drafted by the group says: “Free movement benefits all workers. Without it, migrants are more vulnerable to hyper-exploitation, making downward pressure on wages more likely. Limiting it would damage the economy and hit living standards.
“Britain and the EU should welcome migration across Europe and from beyond.”
Ms Saddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, said: “Labour should champion the benefit freedom of movement has brought to Britain, and conference should commit to maintaining it to ensure the UK economy, and particularly London’s economy, is protected.
For months Labour have been divided over what approach the party should adopt, with high-ranking members of the Shadow Cabinet constantly disagreeing.
Sir Keir Starmer outlined Labour’s Brexit outlook last week, insisting the party would support a four-year long transitional deal after 2019 which would continue to give Britain access to the single market and customs union.
But Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour party, admitted yesterday that his party could see that Britain remains entangled in the EU’s economical markets after the transitional deal.
When asked on BBC Newsnight whether Labour now supported a soft Brexit, Mr Watson said: "Yes, you have seen Keir Starmer's statement, we think that being part of the customs union and the single market is important in those transitional times because that is the way you protect jobs and the economy, and it might be a permanent outcome of the negotiations, but we have got to see how those negotiations go."