John McDonnell – We’ve been forced into backing a second referendum
With less than four weeks to go until the UK is due to leave the European Union, Sophy Ridge was joined by the Shadow Chancellor. Labour has recently made headlines with its apparent volte-face on a second referendum. John McDonnell explained his party’s new Brexit position:
'We've been forced into a second referendum by Theresa May' says shadow chancellor John McDonnell #Ridge
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— Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge (@SkyPoliticsHub) March 3, 2019
JM: We said we’d respect the referendum, but we also said we wouldn’t allow Theresa May to take us out of Europe with a reckless deal, and we would not support ‘no deal’… We’ve recognised actually, if we have to, to block no deal and to block a bad deal, we’ll have to go back to the people themselves… We’ve been forced into this by Theresa May running down the clock and not coming to a compromise that we can all support.
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