Financial Times: Poll shows 86% of Labour members want new Brexit vote

23 September 2018

Jeremy Corbyn is facing further pressure over his stance on Brexit after a new poll of Labour members found that 86 per cent want a second referendum on the eve of the party’s annual conference in Liverpool.

The poll by YouGov, published on Saturday evening, suggested that only 8 per cent of the grassroots members are opposed to a “People’s Vote”. The YouGov poll of 1,054 Labour members found that a sweeping majority believed that Brexit would make it harder to end austerity, weaken workers’ rights, dilute environmental protections and make children worse off than their parents.

An overwhelming 91 per cent to 3 per cent thought Brexit would damage the economy.

Labour’s position in recent months has been to oppose a second referendum but not rule out the “possibility” of one in certain circumstances. Instead, senior party figures have repeatedly said that their main priority is to force Theresa May, the embattled Tory prime minister, to hold a general election to try to break the political impasse over how to leave the European Union. [...]

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