Labour remainers 'bribe' May to help pass Brexit deal – but only if they get 'people's vote'

Jeremy Corbyn could get behind a plan to allow Brexit to happen if there's a promise of another vote to confirm or reject it.

The Labour boss's own plan for a soft Brexit was thrown out by MPs this week, causing him to officials throw his weight behind a fresh poll.

And they could bring forward their own plans to defy their own pro-Brexit voters with a new Commons vote as early as next week.

Backbencher Peter Kyle said he was confident that the leadership would back his idea and senior figures are looking at the wording.

He told the Guardian: "I have every reason to believe that this will get the necessary support when the time comes".

"This ticks every single box and is the only credible proposal on the table right now," he added.

The words could say Labour will "withold support" for the PM's deal until it's passed in a fresh people's vote.

Labour figures are speaking to MPs across the party to see if they can find a motion they can get the whole party behind.

But Brexiteers will be fuming with the idea that a second divisive referendum could be on the cards once more, and their own seats in Leave-voting areas could be at risk.

It would open the door for Brexit to be cancelled completely as top Labour figures are desperate to put Remain on the ballot paper again.

Brexiteer John Mann wrote today in LabourList: "My voters are fed up with being patronised by a London-dominated, metropolitan elite within the Labour Party who seem to think they know best for what they want and why they voted to leave the EU.

"Two thirds of Labour-held seats voted to leave the EU and this must not be ignored in an attempt to reverse Brexit."

And Remainers in Mr Corbyn's party will be infuriated too at the thought of allowing Mrs May's Brexit deal to go through at all, because they don't want to have anything to do with it.

But even if Mr Corbyn forces his MPs to vote for another referendum, it's not likely there will be enough in the House of Commons to vote it through.

This way the Labour boss keeps his Remain supporters happy by putting forward another vote, but it's not likely to happen.

Some Tories Remainers could get behind the plans but they aren't likely to vote with Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour's Barry Gardiner says second vote would 'undermine trust in democracy'

A SECOND Brexit referendum would "undermine trust in democracy", Barry Gardiner has said, even though it's his OWN party's policy.

The shadow international trade secretary told the BBC that holding another vote on leaving the EU would risk destroying voters' faith in the system.

Earlier this week the party formally said they would get behind another divisive poll, risking the total betrayal of millions of Leave voters.

But he said that the party will "try everything we can" to influence and change Brexit – including an election.

Mr Gardiner, who has long spoken out against another vote, told Question Time last night: "If we do end up with a second referendum, I still believe that that does undermine trust in democracy in this country…

"I’ve always been clear that I think it is divisive, I think it does undermine trust, but I now believe it is the only way that we have to stop no deal."

Mrs May has said she will bring her deal back to the Commons before March 12, and is still seeking legal changes to it in the hope MPs will go for it.

Labour's John McDonnell revealed yesterday the party would either bring forward their own plans or support a fresh amendment at the same time.

If her deal doesn't do through then MPs will be given a vote on whether to leave the EU with no deal in place at all – which is highly unlikely to pass.

Then they will be asked whether they want to extend Article 50 and beg the EU for more time, a move which could bolster hopes of forcing through a referendum in that time.

No10 are hoping that Brexiteers fall in line and vote for the deal if some tweaks are made as they face the alternative of a Brexit delay which could reverse it altogether.

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