Mr Steerpike has a great degree of sympathy with those who have been trying to keep up with Labour’s contorted Brexit position. First the party had its six tests – designed to be impossible to fulfil, then five demands – set out in a letter to the prime minister, and now a confusing hodgepodge of views with a commitment to take no deal off the table. But you would at least think that Labour politicians would have worked out what their own party’s Brexit position actually was.
Apparently not though. Jamie Driscoll, the Labour candidate to be the new North of Tyne Mayor was being interviewed by ITV news this afternoon ahead of the election on 2 May. But the prospective regional leader rather came undone when he was asked the (not exactly difficult) question: what is your Brexit position?
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WATCH: Jamie Driscoll – Labour's candidate to be the new North of Tyne Mayor – struggles to explain his position on
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