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Rightwingers ordered to stop scuppering Brexit
CONRAD LANDIN reports from Scottish Labour Conference in Dundee
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard, shadow Scottish secretary Lesley Laird and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn [John Linton/PA Wire]

RIGHTWINGERS in Scottish Labour were told to back off from the “dangerous game” of opposing Brexit at the party’s conference yesterday.

Shadow Scottish secretary Lesley Laird, a Westminster MP currently serving as Scottish Labour’s interim deputy leader, fired a warning shot after an intervention from the right failed to put EU single market membership on the agenda.

Scottish Labour for the Single Market, which is backed by former Holyrood leader Kezia Dugdale and ex-shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray, had promoted a conference motion calling for Britain to remain in the single market.

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