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Live blog: Labour’s Brexit position, 25/9/18

It’s Labour conference and the party is supposed to be setting out its plan for government. Only when it comes to Brexit, no-one is quite sure what that is. In the interest of clarity, Mr S will be running a live blog with the latest twists in the party’s apparent Brexit policy:

11am: Keir Starmer says remaining in the EU is an option
The shadow Brexit secretary tells Labour conference: ‘Nobody is ruling out remain as an option.’

11am: Dennis Skinner frowns
The Beast of Bolsover doesn’t seem too impressed by Starmer’s intervention:

11.40am: Keir Starmer’s official speech text misses out Remain line
The official Labour-approved text of Starmer’s speech is released – but it does not include the key phrase which says Remain is an option still on the table.

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