Back to square one: Labour betrays leave voters

Both the Conservatives and Labour fought the last election on a promise to respect and implement the decision of voters in the EU referendum.

The fact that this promise has not yet been carried out is already doing great damage to trust in politics. We must be honest about the fact that we share some of the blame for this, in that although the vast majority of  Conservative MPs have voted to leave the EU, disagreements between Conservatives about how to do it have been part of the reason for the delay.

But literally 99% of Conservative MPs have voted to leave the EU.

There are about a dozen honourable exceptions on the Labour benches who have regularly voted with us to keep their election promise and leave the EU, and faced considerable trouble from their party as a result, but the majority of Labour MPs have not even tried to keep that promise. A substantial number of Labour MPs have actively campaigned to frustrate the "People's Vote" we've already had.

Last week Labour finally ended any pretence of keeping their election promise and came out for Remain.
Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary confirmed that Labour will back a second referendum and campaign to Remain– showing they have no interest in delivering on the referendum result.

Key facts:
  • Labour are calling for a second referendum on any deal negotiated by the government and would campaign to Remain. 
  • Labour promised to respect the Brexit vote. But rerunning the referendum and backing Remain would be an attempt to frustrate Brexit and ignore the democratic mandate to deliver it. 
Only the Conservatives respect the referendum result and will deliver Brexit. Labour would send us right back to square one.

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