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A Brexit rift at the top of Labour has once again burst into the open as Keir Starmer defied Jeremy Corbyn and declared that the process "can be stopped". 

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"An anti-Brexit party would win 150 fewer seats than a Leave party at a general election" Prof. Christopher Hanretty, Head of politics, University of London

"Labour splits erupt as Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn to insist Brexit 'can be stopped'
https://t.co/tUMTgujiMf

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"Starmer used the second referendum composite vote to make his turning point political speech he stated without party support or policy the party would back a second referendum and a remain stance."
https://t.co/HZntaLy4tB

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Keir Starmer Just Broke The Labour Party. - Labour Heartlands

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In one speech Starmer has managed to not only lose the support of countless Labour constituencies that voted to Leave the EU but managed to complete the

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"An anti-Brexit party would win 150 fewer seats than a Leave party at a general election" Prof. Christopher Hanretty, Head of politics, University of London

"Labour splits erupt as Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn to insist Brexit 'can be stopped'https://t.co/tUMTgujiMf
— Weapons Of Mass Deception 🥀 (@iwaslabour) June 21, 2021

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"An anti-Brexit party would win 150 fewer seats than a Leave party at a general election" Prof. Christopher Hanretty, Head of politics, University of London

"Labour splits erupt as Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn to insist Brexit 'can be stopped'
https://t.co/tUMTgujiMf

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Labour splits erupt as Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn to insist Brexit 'can be stopped'

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A Brexit rift at the top of Labour has once again burst into the open as Keir Starmer defied Jeremy Corbyn and declared that the process "can be stopped". 

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Sept 2018:

"Starmer used the second referendum composite vote to make his turning point political speech he stated without party support or policy the party would back a second referendum and a remain stance."
https://t.co/HZntaLy4tB

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Keir Starmer Just Broke The Labour Party. - Labour Heartlands

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In one speech Starmer has managed to not only lose the support of countless Labour constituencies that voted to Leave the EU but managed to complete the

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"An anti-Brexit party would win 150 fewer seats than a Leave party at a general election" Prof. Christopher Hanretty, Head of politics, University of London

"Labour splits erupt as Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn to insist Brexit 'can be stopped'
https://t.co/tUMTgujiMf

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"An anti-Brexit party would win 150 fewer seats than a Leave party at a general election" Prof. Christopher Hanretty, Head of politics, University of London

"Labour splits erupt as Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn to insist Brexit 'can be stopped'
https://t.co/tUMTgujiMf

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A Brexit rift at the top of Labour has once again burst into the open as Keir Starmer defied Jeremy Corbyn and declared that the process "can be stopped". 

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Sept 2018:

"Starmer used the second referendum composite vote to make his turning point political speech he stated without party support or policy the party would back a second referendum and a remain stance."
https://t.co/HZntaLy4tB

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Keir Starmer Just Broke The Labour Party. - Labour Heartlands

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@theclawsoftime @EACalvary Under Corbyn Labour got more votes for Remain than any other party, defeated the government on Brexit in Parliament - forcing more government defeats than any opposition in history, stopped no deal Brexit, then offered a second referendum and he voted against Johnson’s 2021 deal.

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@theclawsoftime @EACalvary Under Corbyn Labour got more votes for Remain than any other party, defeated the government on Brexit in Parliament - forcing more government defeats than any opposition in history, stopped no deal Brexit, then offered a second referendum and he voted against Johnson’s 2021 deal.

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Under Corbyn Labour got more votes for Remain than any other party, defeated the government on Brexit in Parliament - forcing more government defeats than any opposition in history, stopped no deal Brexit, then offered a second referendum and he voted against Johnson’s 2021 deal.
— Greg Herriett (@greg_herriett) November 1, 2022

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@theclawsoftime @EACalvary Under Corbyn Labour got more votes for Remain than any other party, defeated the government on Brexit in Parliament - forcing more government defeats than any opposition in history, stopped no deal Brexit, then offered a second referendum and he voted against Johnson’s 2021 deal.

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@theclawsoftime @EACalvary Under Corbyn Labour got more votes for Remain than any other party, defeated the government on Brexit in Parliament - forcing more government defeats than any opposition in history, stopped no deal Brexit, then offered a second referendum and he voted against Johnson’s 2021 deal.

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Corbyn's EU referendum speech verdict: rambling but also rather special | Brexit | The Guardian

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Anyone who watched Jeremy Corbyn's rambling, and rather second-rate, EU speech will have wondered how he became Labour leader.

However, those present for the subsequent Q&A, which unfortunately was not broadcast live, will have understood why he did, because he began to sound passionate - and rather special.

But let's start with the speech. If you were expecting a deep, rich argument for remaining in the EU you will have been disappointed. Corbyn provided a range of reasons for voting to remain, but the speech sounded like a list of talking points rather than a coherent narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

He certainly did not explain his "personal journey" from voting out in 1975 to voting in now, as we were told he would. And, like a disobedient shopping trolley, he kept veering away from his message to attack the Tories, over tax avoidance, privatisation and the like.

To be fair, there is nothing wrong with a Labour leader attacking the Tories. And he deployed some good, waspish lines: "The Conservatives are loyally committed to protecting one British industry in Europe: the tax avoidance industry." But it all sounded a bit off-message.

It was also significant that he made little attempt to engage with the arguments made by the leave camp. There was nothing about how long it might take to negotiate a trade deal, or whether the EU would really allow the UK access to the free market without also allowing free movement. These are the kind of points David Cameron makes all the time because he is interested in dismantling the leave case point by point.

On the plus side, it sounded 100% sincere. If anyone was expecting Corbyn to parrot pro-EU homilies that he clearly did not believe, then they will have been disappointed. He did not say anything inauthentic or phoney. Possibly his best moment came when an ITV reporter accused him of being "half-hearted". He rebutted the claim with the line: "There's nothing half-hearted about anything I do." And after that the Q&A got even better.

In his book about the 1988 US presidential election What It Takes - one of the best political books ever written - the late Richard Ben Cramer describes how George Bush was a lacklustre and unfocused candidate, largely because he did not seem to know why he wanted to be president. The turning point came when he was convinced that Michael Dukakis would be a disaster for America; suddenly Bush had a mission.

Corbyn has never been enthusiastic about the EU. But during the Q&A he was stirring and persuasive on issues such as workers' rights and the migration crisis at an EU level. And when he described what it would be like living in a Tory Britain outside the EU, it felt as if he he might have had his own Bush moment and discovered a reason for engaging in this campaign.

Just imagine what the Tories would do to workers' rights here in Britain if we voted to leave the EU in June. They'd dump rights on equal pay, working time, annual leave for agency workers, and on maternity pay, as fast as they could get away with it. It would be a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU.

Not only that, it wouldn't be a Labour government negotiating a better settlement for working people with the EU. It would be a Tory government, quite possibly led by Boris Johnson and backed by Nigel Farage, that would negotiate the worst of all worlds: a free market free-for-all shorn of rights and protections.

More of this, and Corbyn could energise the pro-European Labour vote. But whether we see it or not remains to be seen.

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@hypomania1967 And he campaigned to remain.

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@hypomania1967 And he campaigned to remain. https://t.co/jq8rtmh8qK

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If you’re confused as to why FBPE blame Corbyn for Brexit despite him wanting to avoid hard Brexit and keep us in the single market, versus their sympathetic reaction to Starmer supporting a hard Brexit and ruling out rejoining.

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And he campaigned to remain. pic.twitter.com/jq8rtmh8qK
— Northern Peg TheNWRA #IWantARevolution (@NorthernPeg) October 25, 2022

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@hypomania1967 And he campaigned to remain. https://t.co/jq8rtmh8qK

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If you’re confused as to why FBPE blame Corbyn for Brexit despite him wanting to avoid hard Brexit and keep us in the single market, versus their sympathetic reaction to Starmer supporting a hard Brexit and ruling out rejoining.

The truth is in there if you want to see it.

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@hypomania1967 And he campaigned to remain. https://t.co/jq8rtmh8qK

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@hypomania1967 And he campaigned to remain.

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If you’re confused as to why FBPE blame Corbyn for Brexit despite him wanting to avoid hard Brexit and keep us in the single market, versus their sympathetic reaction to Starmer supporting a hard Brexit and ruling out rejoining.

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Keir Starmer has blood on his hands with Brexit disaster as Labour leader ‘killed’ deal | Politics | News | Express.co.uk

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Sir Keir vowed that Britain "will not go back into the EU" under a Labour government during a speech on Monday as he unveiled a five-point plan to "make Brexit work", borrowing from the Conservatives' pledge to "get Brexit done". The Labour leader - who voted to Remain in the EU - claimed that any debate about the UK re-joining the bloc's single market or customs union was over. Sir Keir also hit out at the Government over its Brexit agreement with the EU, telling BBC News it is "holding us back". Under Sir Keir's plan, Labour will act as an "honest broker" to fix the troublesome Northern Ireland Protocol and will "tear down unnecessary barriers" in a bid to ease trade frictions.

The Tory peer wrote about the Labour leader's involvement in the Brexit talks between Mr Corbyn and Mrs May in his 2021 book, 'Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street'.

Writing about the period after the talks broke down, he said: "Labour didn't have any confidence that whoever succeeded her would abide by any deal.

"And it was pretty clear Keir was not prepared to settle for anything that didn't include a commitment to a confirmatory vote.

"I'm not sure whether the Shadow Cabinet realised at the time, but they had killed off the last chance for a compromise Brexit.

"Jeremy Corbyn wanted to do it, but Keir Starmer stopped it. It seems fitting he's now dealing with the consequences."

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As an ex-barrister, Sir Keir has sometimes been praised for using an analytical approach against Prime Minister Boris Johnson during their exchanges in the House of Commons.

However, according to Lord Barwell's book, the apparently astute Labour leader failed to grasp some of the basic details of Brexit.

The former aide to Mrs May claimed that he was left "stunned" during one encounter with Sir Keir.

He said: "The Prime Minister met with Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Keir Starmer, then the shadow Brexit minister, and asked them whether Labour might be prepared to support the withdrawal agreement only.

"Keir replied that they could only do that if there was agreement on the future relationship and a second referendum.
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"'Couldn't those issues be sorted out during the passage of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill?' I asked.

"No, he said, because we would have left by then.

"I was stunned that he did not understand the basic fact that we would not have left until the Withdrawal Agreement Bill had been passed."

In another "embarrassing" moment for Sir Keir, the Labour leader was apparently unaware that he was rejecting one of his own Brexit proposals as he "objected to the language on customs" in a document.

Lord Barwell wrote: "I pointed out that we'd lifted it from his letter of April 22 - he was objecting to his own policy. He looked suitably embarrassed."

Express.co.uk has reached out to Sir Keir Starmer's representatives for comment.

'Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street' was written by Lord Gavin Barwell and published by Atlantic Books in 2021. It is available here.

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SIR KEIR STARMER is partly responsible for the failings of Brexit as the Labour leader "killed" hopes of a cross-party deal over Britain's withdrawal from the EU, an insider from the Brexit talks has claimed.

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Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson ‘absolutely categorically’ rules out working with Corbyn even to deliver new Brexit referendum

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@hi_priest_teeth @hypomania1967 "Corbyn's soft Brexit was a myth. You can't, on one hand, , on the other hand,."

That is the reason for compromise.  

Mr Corbyn's proposal of a CU with a Say with EU, partnerships and EU standards as a UK floor, without membership, was supported by Ireland and welcomed by EU.

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@hi_priest_teeth @hypomania1967 "Corbyn's soft Brexit was a myth. You can't, on one hand, , on the other hand,."

That is the reason for compromise.  

Mr Corbyn's proposal of a CU with a Say with EU, partnerships and EU standards as a UK floor, without membership, was supported by Ireland and welcomed by EU. https://t.co/X1I7eQIQJI

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@hypomania1967 The truth is that Corbyn's soft Brexit was a myth. You can't, on one hand, say you accept the referendum vote and, on the other hand, disregard the reasons for that vote.

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"Corbyn's soft Brexit was a myth. You can't, on one hand, , on the other hand,."

That is the reason for compromise.

Mr Corbyn's proposal of a CU with a Say with EU, partnerships and EU standards as a UK floor, without membership, was supported by Ireland and welcomed by EU. pic.twitter.com/X1I7eQIQJI
— G Paul Turner (@GPaulTurner) October 25, 2022

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@hi_priest_teeth @hypomania1967 "Corbyn's soft Brexit was a myth. You can't, on one hand, , on the other hand,."

That is the reason for compromise.  

Mr Corbyn's proposal of a CU with a Say with EU, partnerships and EU standards as a UK floor, without membership, was supported by Ireland and welcomed by EU. https://t.co/X1I7eQIQJI

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@hypomania1967 The truth is that Corbyn's soft Brexit was a myth. You can't, on one hand, say you accept the referendum vote and, on the other hand, disregard the reasons for that vote.

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@hi_priest_teeth @hypomania1967 "Corbyn's soft Brexit was a myth. You can't, on one hand, , on the other hand,."

That is the reason for compromise.  

Mr Corbyn's proposal of a CU with a Say with EU, partnerships and EU standards as a UK floor, without membership, was supported by Ireland and welcomed by EU. https://t.co/X1I7eQIQJI

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@hi_priest_teeth @hypomania1967 "Corbyn's soft Brexit was a myth. You can't, on one hand, , on the other hand,."

That is the reason for compromise.  

Mr Corbyn's proposal of a CU with a Say with EU, partnerships and EU standards as a UK floor, without membership, was supported by Ireland and welcomed by EU.

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I’ve offered to meet Jeremy Corbyn to discuss how we can work together on a deliverable plan to stop no-deal, including the option of uniting behind an MP who can command a majority in the House.

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I’ve offered to meet Jeremy Corbyn to discuss how we can work together on a deliverable plan to stop no-deal, including the option of uniting behind an MP who can command a majority in the House.

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I’ve offered to meet Jeremy Corbyn to discuss how we can work together on a deliverable plan to stop no-deal, including the option of uniting behind an MP who can command a majority in the House.
— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) August 15, 2019

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The Tories are determined to deliver a damaging Brexit & Labour under Corbyn are missing in action. We can’t leave our future in their hands. Our country deserves better. #JoinJo #DemandBetter https://t.co/uviDLc8NTM

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The Tories are determined to deliver a damaging Brexit & Labour under Corbyn are missing in action. We can’t leave our future in their hands. Our country deserves better. #JoinJo #DemandBetter https://t.co/uviDLc8NTM

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The Tories are determined to deliver a damaging Brexit & Labour under Corbyn are missing in action. We can’t leave our future in their hands. Our country deserves better. #JoinJo #DemandBetter https://t.co/uviDLc8NTM
— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) July 2, 2019

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The Tories are determined to deliver a damaging Brexit & Labour under Corbyn are missing in action. We can’t leave our future in their hands. Our country deserves better. #JoinJo #DemandBetter https://t.co/uviDLc8NTM

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The Tories are determined to deliver a damaging Brexit & Labour under Corbyn are missing in action. We can’t leave our future in their hands. Our country deserves better. #JoinJo #DemandBetter https://t.co/uviDLc8NTM

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The Tories are determined to deliver a damaging Brexit & Labour under Corbyn are missing in action. We can’t leave our future in their hands. Our country deserves better. #JoinJo #DemandBetter https://t.co/uviDLc8NTM

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Yes, you’re right. Given how often he goes missing on Brexit it’s hard to keep track. #JoinJo https://t.co/mYiqVACOGB https://t.co/hQrJohf6AI

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Labour In For Britain chair criticises Jeremy Corbyn's campaign involvement

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Phil Wilson says party leader should resign for failing to provide direction during EU referendum campaign

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Yes, you’re right. Given how often he goes missing on Brexit it’s hard to keep track. #JoinJo https://t.co/mYiqVACOGB https://t.co/hQrJohf6AI

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Hi @joswinson, on the #Today programme you claimed @jeremycorbyn took two weeks holiday in the referendum. That’s not true, could you correct please?

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Yes, you’re right. Given how often he goes missing on Brexit it’s hard to keep track. #JoinJo https://t.co/mYiqVACOGB https://t.co/hQrJohf6AI
— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) July 23, 2019

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Phil Wilson says party leader should resign for failing to provide direction during EU referendum campaign

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Yes, you’re right. Given how often he goes missing on Brexit it’s hard to keep track. #JoinJo https://t.co/mYiqVACOGB https://t.co/hQrJohf6AI

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Hi @joswinson, on the #Today programme you claimed @jeremycorbyn took two weeks holiday in the referendum. That’s not true, could you correct please?

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Yes, you’re right. Given how often he goes missing on Brexit it’s hard to keep track. #JoinJo https://t.co/mYiqVACOGB https://t.co/hQrJohf6AI

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Phil Wilson says party leader should resign for failing to provide direction during EU referendum campaign

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Dilemmas posed by Lib Dem vow to exit Brexit without referendum

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Dilemmas posed by Lib Dem vow to exit Brexit without referendum

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The Liberal Democrats' new referendum bypass policy to stop Brexit is clearly a tactical error, as identified by Polly Toynbee ( Swinson's move to revoke hands Labour a golden opportunity, 17 September). It also has the greater significance of sinking their claim to the moral high ground on EU policy, already flawed by their failure to acknowledge their role in generating the current mess (and indeed their responsibility for austerity).

It was, after all, not David Cameron but acting Lib Dem leader Vince Cable, who, as early as 2007, proposed amending the Queen's speech to incorporate an in/out EU referendum, stating that "we trust the people to make a decision about whether we should stay in or get out", a position subsequently reinforced by Nick Clegg. After the 2016 referendum, Cable thought a second one would be "disrespectful". By the 2017 general election, Lib Dem policy had evolved to giving the people the final say on a negotiated deal, remarkably similar to Labour's position today.

Toynbee calls for Labour to back an immediate referendum, but this makes it difficult to avoid including an irresponsible no-deal option, which could be ruled out by achieving an anti-Tory majority in a general election.Jo Swinson should drop her opposition to cooperating with Labour and work towards a post-election referendum in which, rather than dismissing 17.4 million leave voters, she will have ample opportunity to persuade an overall majority to vote to remain in the EU.
Dr Anthony Isaacs
London

The Lib Dems are often stereotyped as wishy-washy fence-sitters, but we have been consistent as the pro-remain party from the beginning. Everyone knows that. If we came to power on that manifesto it would be a clear mandate to put an end to Brexit by revoking article 50.
Stephanie Bailey
Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset
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2008 Feb 25th Clegg calls for EU referendum to end 'crazy' debate

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British politicians from across the spectrum have "all gone crazy" over Europe and created a poisonous debate which has destabilised successive governments, Nick Clegg claims today.

In a passionate intervention in the debate on the new Lisbon treaty, which is undergoing lengthy parliamentary scrutiny, the pro-European Liberal Democrat leader says it is time to stage a referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU.

Writing in today's Guardian, Clegg says: "We've all gone crazy. Pro and anti, Europhile and Eurosceptic, trading blows about the Lisbon treaty in grand rhetoric that obscures the facts. If you're pro-European, like I am, you're accused of being a sell-out. If you're anti-European, like most of the Conservative party, you're accused of being a headbanger."

Clegg says it is time to give the country its first chance in 33 years to decide if it wants to be in or out of the EU. "Nobody in this country under the age of 51 has ever been asked that simple question. That includes half of all MPs. We've been signed up to Europe by default: two generations who have never had their say."

Clegg, 41, a former MEP of Dutch and Russian heritage who made his name as a senior official in the European commission, will this week table an amendment in parliament to the Lisbon treaty bill demanding an "in or out" referendum. This will not succeed because Labour and the Tories do not want such a poll. Labour believes no referendum is necessary, while the Tories are waiting for next week, when MPs will vote on whether to have a referendum on the narrower issue of the Lisbon treaty. This is also unlikely to succeed.

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Clegg calls for EU referendum to end 'crazy' debate

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British politicians from have 'all gone crazy' over Europe, says Nick Clegg

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SLIDE 1
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2008-02-26/debates/08022642000002/TreatyOfLisbon(No7)?highlight=%22in%20or%20out%20of%20europe%22#contribution-08022658000044

SLIDE 2 https://twitter.com/joswinson/status/1163747128457539584

SLIDES 3 & 4
https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/crcc/eu-referendum/uk-news-coverage-2016-eu-referendum-report-5-6-may-22-june-2016/

SLIDE 5
https://www.referendumanalysis.eu/eu-referendum-analysis-2016/section-6-parties/the-liberal-democrats-the-eu-referendums-invisible-party/

http://www.referendumanalysis.uk/eu-referendum-analysis-2016/section-6-parties/the-liberal-democrats-the-eu-referendums-invisible-party/

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According to Barwell, Starmer cost Labour the 2019 election | Inside Croydon

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WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, got his hands dirty at the weekend, in an effort to save you the uncomfortable displeasure of reading The S*n, and to save you 20 quid
For more than 30 years, families on Merseyside and Liverpool Football Club supporters around the world have supported the Don't Buy The S*n campaign, following the Murdoch tabloid's terrible, spiteful and unfounded coverage of the last moments of loved ones at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. The newspaper's sales in the city have never recovered.

That doesn't appear to have bothered "Lord" Gavin Barwell, the former Croydon Central MP who was brought up in south London but who claims to be an avid Liverpool football fan.

For Barwell allowed his latest book to be serialised at the weekend by The S*n, very possibly after the biggest payers of serialisation rights on what was once Fleet Street, the Sunday Times and Daily Mail, rejected his latest memoir, Chief Of Staff: Notes From Downing Street.

Those foolish enough not to have resisted the temptation to read Barwell's previous straight-to-the-remainder-bins classic, How To Lose A Marginal Seat, will probably understand the reasons that his latest offering wound up with a downmarket taboid. It is actually not very good.

The exposure in The S*n makes that very clear.

If you were expecting revelations from Barwell's time at the heart of government, working as Prime Minister Theresa May's top adviser, then you will be disappointed. Perhaps it is the Official Secrets Act - which Barwell will have signed - or perhaps he's just not a very good diarist, but if the extracts unveiled at the weekend are anything to go by, then anyone who does buy the book when it is published later this week is in for 432 very dull pages.

The newspaper extracts, after all, are supposed to be the best bits.

Yet what appeared over the weekend tended all to be already well-known episodes in May's unhappy two years in Downing Street. Doubtless, she might have been happier, and had more success, had she been wiser in her selection of advisers.

The book's title has been adjusted since Barwell signed his deal with publishers Atlantic. Chief of Staff: My Time as the Prime Minister's Right-Hand Man was probably deemed just a tad too onanistic, even for the man who was caught responding to porn sites while working late into the night at No10.

The cover will undoubtedly play to the vanity and West Wing-style delusions of grandeur of the author, as he flicks through the pages while in one of the House of Lords' tea rooms the next time he collects his £305 per diem just for showing up.

Those who doubt Keir Starmer's abilities to revive the fortunes of Labour won't be surprised to learn from the book that he was to blame for his party's 2019 General Election defeat. Barwell says that it was Starmer's "colossal misjudgment" to block his party from supporting a compromise over Brexit.

According to Barwell, Starmer even attacked proposals that he himself had put forward.

May was so desperate to get any form of Brexit deal through parliament in the dying days of her premiership that she opened negotiations to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.

"Jeremy Corbyn wanted to do it, but Keir Starmer stopped it," Barwell says in his book.

"Starmer was not prepared to settle for anything that didn't include a confirmatory vote."

In other revelations right up there with bears shitting in the woods and Popes generally being of the Catholic persuasion, Barwell's book tells us that his old mate Boris Johnson was "gaffe-prone" and not on top of his brief.

"On one occasion, he blurted out to me: 'You don't like Brexit because you blame it and me for losing your seat'.

"I was taken aback. It was true that I hadn't wanted the UK to leave the EU, but whatever my personal views, I accepted our obligation to implement the will of the people."

Elsewhere, Barwell also "reveals" that Theresa May had no idea of how to play pool (shock!), and that on one flight back from an international conference, she had beer spilt over her by another aide (horror!).

Oh, and in his book, Barwell goes to some lengths to explain that Gavin Williamson is a prize twat.

If what was published at the weekend really are the plum pieces available after Barwell spent almost as long writing up his memoir as the time he spent as No10's Chief of Staff, then the book is thin gruel indeed (we have not had the advantage of the usual media review copy, possibly because the publishers are a little sensitive after the warm welcome we gave to Barwell's previous lacklustre efforts).

Thus it is that the behind-closed-doors wheeling and dealing with Labour over Brexit appear the most insightful parts of his unreliable memoir.

"The Prime Minister met with Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Keir Starmer, then the shadow Brexit minister, and asked them whether Labour might be prepared to support the withdrawal agreement only," Barwell writes. "Keir replied that they could only do that if there was agreement on the future relationship and a second referendum.

"'Couldn't those issues be sorted out during the passage of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill?' I asked.

"No, he said, because we would have left by then.

"I was stunned that he did not understand the basic fact that we would not have left until the Withdrawal Agreement Bill had been passed."

Barwell goes on to describe a meeting with the Labour leadership held on May 6, where he claims that Starmer "objected to the language on customs" used in one of the bilateral documents. "I pointed out that we had lifted it from his letter of April 22 - he was objecting to his own policy," Barwell writes.

Once the talks broke down, Barwell writes, "Labour didn't have any confidence that whoever succeeded her would abide by any deal, and it was pretty clear Keir was not prepared to settle for anything that didn't include a commitment to a confirmatory vote.

"I'm not sure whether the Shadow Cabinet realised at the time, but they had killed off the last chance for a compromise Brexit...

"Jeremy Corbyn wanted to do it, but Keir Starmer stopped it. It seems fitting he's now dealing with the consequences."

For the avoidance of any doubt, no copies of The S*n were bought in the compilation of this review

Read more: Barwell's Downing Street book is promising 'revelations'

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According to Barwell, Starmer cost Labour the 2019 election

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WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, got his hands dirty at the weekend, in an effort to save you the uncomfortable displeasure of reading The S*n, and to save you 20 quid For more than 30 years, families on Merseyside and Liverpool Football Club supporters around the world have supported the Don't Buy The S*n campaign,...

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2007 Nov 11th | Vince Cable: we will force a referendum vote in Parliament

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