‘Remain has been defeated. The movement needs to move on,’ unions say
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry and Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer at the Anti-Brexit 'Trust the People' march and rally held by the People's Vote campaign during the Labour Party Conference in Brighton
LABOUR was urged to accept that it “got it wrong” on Brexit and that “Remain has been defeated” today following yesterday’s devastating election result.
Over the course of the long and brutal night, dozens of Labour constituencies turned blue for the first time in decades — most of them Leave-voting.
This included the former mining town of Blyth Valley and Workington where Labour had held the seat with only one interruption since 1918.
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