Labour will back a public vote to ‘prevent a damaging Tory Brexit’

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would support a move that would give the British public a chance to vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal if Labour’s proposals were rejected by Parliament later this week.

He said the Labour Party leadership had taken the decision because of the Prime Minister’s failure to secure parliamentary support for her plan, leaving Britain on the verge of crashing out of the European Union without a deal on March 29. The British public voted in June 2016 to leave the EU.