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TEHRAN, Apr 30 - A source close to the leadership of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party say the group will not change its stance on a second referendum on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - A Labour source said on Tuesday that the party will still back a second vote on Brexit on three conditions, namely its failure to push through its own Brexit deal, the inability to change the government’s Brexit agreement or failing to prepare the situation for a national election.
The source said the National Executive Committee, which is the governing body for the Labour, agreed to stick to its manifesto on Brexit after a meeting on Tuesday.
It said the policy will remain “to support Labour’s alternative plan, and if we can’t get the necessary changes to the government’s deal, or a general election, to back the option of a public vote.”
The source also said that Labour would contest the European Parliament elections next month as it viewed the votes fully compliant with its existing policy.
Labour is the midst of some tough talks with the ruling Conservative Party on how the two, which dominate the British parliament, could secure a Brexit deal that could avoid a disorderly withdrawal from the EU.
The talks came after Prime Minster Theresa May failed to gain the approval of the parliament for her own Brexit deal on three occasions, prompting the EU to grant Britain a second delay to Brexit until the end of October.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has repeatedly insisted that he would prefer to respect the results of the June 2016 referendum on Brexit in which some 52 percent of Britons voted to leave the EU.
However, he has floated the idea that the opposition would back a second vote on Brexit, either on the exit mechanism or on an option to remain, if efforts to deliver on the results of the fist referendum fail permanently.
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