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PM ‘must step aside if she can’t deliver a Brexit for workers’
Keir Starmer delivers his speech to Labour conference

THERESA MAY must step aside if she cannot negotiate a Brexit deal that helps working people, Labour conference heard today.

GMB general secretary Tim Roache publicly intervened to say the Prime Minister should call a general election on the deal she cooks up with Brussels.

"If May is so confident in achieving a deal that working people, our economy and communities will benefit from then she should have nothing to fear from putting that to the test," he declared.

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