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Labour's Islington set has betrayed the working classes 'so much anger' says MEP


Brexit Party MEP Belinda de Lucy hit out at Jeremy Corbyn’s party and warned there is “so much anger”. It comes after the Labour leader set out plans to strike a new deal with the EU before holding a second referendum if he wins a general election.

Ms de Lucy told Express.co.uk: “Labour has not only betrayed its Brexit voters but betrayed the working class.

“They are so dishonest at the moment with their Brexit plans, purposely not choosing a side.

“I feel very strongly, my experience in the Leave towns in the north, there is so much anger against Labour betraying the working classes.

“It has morphed into this metropolitan middle class Islington set.”

Mr Corbyn’s new Brexit stance was backed at Labour’s conference in Brighton.

He has promised to negotiate his own Brexit deal with the EU in three months if he takes the keys to Number 10.

He would then put the agreement to a second referendum within six months.

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Speaking at Labour’s conference in Brighton on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn insisted “letting the people decide” is the “only way we can settle this issue” despite the public already voting to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum.

The left-winger said: “Labour will end the Brexit crisis by taking the decision back to the people with the choice of a credible leave deal alongside remain.

“That’s not complicated; Labour is a democratic party that trusts the people.

“After three-and-a-half years of Tory Brexit failure and division, the only way we can settle this issue and bring people back together is by taking the decision out of the hands of politicians and letting the people decide.

“So within three months of coming to power a Labour government will secure a sensible deal based on the terms we have long advocated and discussed with the EU trade unions and businesses: a new customs union, a close single market relationship, and guarantees of rights and protections.

“And within six months of being elected we will put that deal to a public vote alongside remain.

“And as a Labour prime minister I pledge to carry out whatever the people decide.”

It comes as Mr Corbyn is taking part in cross-party talks to block a no-deal Brexit.

Remainer MPs have already pushed through the Benn Act in a bid to force Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension to the October 31 deadline to avoid no deal.



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