Delegates voting at conference
LABOUR delegates voted in favour of a motion for a special one-day conference after a general election where the party would decide how to campaign in a second referendum on Brexit.
During a lively debate over its Brexit policy today, delegates at the party’s conference in Brighton rejected calls to explicitly back campaigning for Remain.
A statement by the party’s governing national executive committee (NEC) said: “The NEC believes it is right that the party shall only decide how to campaign in [a referendum on Brexit] — through a one-day special conference, following the election of a Labour government.”
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