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| Brexit live: Ed Miliband says Corbyn should resign as Labour leader | Brexit live: Ed Miliband says Corbyn should resign as Labour leader |
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| Jeremy Corbyn has been visiting the Polish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, where xenophobic graffiti was scrawled on the doors at the weekend. He recorded a clip for broadcasters denouncing racism but, when a reporter tried to ask him about the leadership, he refused to answer and an aide pulled him away. | |
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| This is from ITV’s Robert Peston. | |
| I am told GMB and Unite both about to come out in support of @jeremycorbyn. & they call on Labour MPs to behave as effective opposition | |
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| Here is the latest from reporters following the Labour story minute by minute. | |
| From the BBC’s Vicki Young | |
| Been told that Lab Dep leader Tom Watson is meeting Jeremy Corbyn. Majority of MPs and MEPs urging him to stand down #labour | |
| From ITV’s Chris Ship | |
| Labour MP: it's at a v delicate stage by we're still trying to get Jeremy Corbyn to resign rather than challenge him | |
| I hear that even Jeremy Corbyn's team are now urging him to quit - but so far without success ... | |
| From Sky’s Jon Craig | |
| Some Labour MPs believe Corbyn clinging on to respond to Chilcot next week, apologise on behalf of Lab & call for Blair war crimes trial. | |
| From the FT’s Jim Pickard | |
| Hearing Watson and Eagle are about to meet at 3.30 but cancelled two earlier meetings as they can't agree who should be unity candidate... | |
| Allies of Eagle fear that Tom Watson will unilaterally declare himself as candidate.... | |
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| Trade unions leaders have been meeting this afternoon to discuss the Labour leadership situation. Channel 4 News’s Michael Crick says they will put out a statement but that it will be non-committal. | |
| Big 4 TU statement on Corbyn, I'm told, "not likely to be earth-shattering" but "nobody should see it as endorsement of anyone's position" | |
| The big four unions are Unite, Unison, the GMB and the CWU. | |
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| Northern Ireland won't be able to have special relationship with EU after Brexit, says Villiers | Northern Ireland won't be able to have special relationship with EU after Brexit, says Villiers |
| Henry McDonald | Henry McDonald |
| The leading Brexiter and Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, warned today that the region won’t be able to attain special status with Brussels once the entire UK leaves the EU. | |
| Ahead of a meeting with the Irish foreign minister, Charlie Flanagan, later on Wednesday, Villiers dismissed suggestions that both Northern Ireland and Scotland – the two UK regions that voted in favour of remain – could have a different relationship to the EU compared with the rest of the UK. | |
| Flanagan and Villiers are due to meet at Stormont later today with the nationalist parties Sinn Féin and the SDLP pressing the Irish government to help their region obtain a separate post-Brexit deal with the EU. | |
| However, Villiers rejected the possibility of any separate arrangements between Brussels and both Scotland and Northern Ireland. She said: | However, Villiers rejected the possibility of any separate arrangements between Brussels and both Scotland and Northern Ireland. She said: |
| The EU rules are very clear – membership is at member state level, it’s a national question. This decision has been made – the people of the UK have voted to leave the EU. That decision is going to be respected. That’s what the government will take forward. | |
| Northern Ireland voted by 56% to 44% to stay in the EU with only one of the four Belfast constituencies voting for Brexit. The secretary of state’s insistence that there can be no side deals between Belfast and Brussels will further infuriate nationalists who unanimously backed staying in the EU. | |
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| (Late) lunchtime summary | (Late) lunchtime summary |
| Obviously we can say that all rights are guaranteed as we’re members of the European Union. In the future we will have to make sure, and I’ve heard members of the Leave campaign make this point, that people who are already here, people who are already studying, people who are working, must have their rights and their access guaranteed. But we can’t say that now, we have to say that as part of the negotiation that will shortly take place. | Obviously we can say that all rights are guaranteed as we’re members of the European Union. In the future we will have to make sure, and I’ve heard members of the Leave campaign make this point, that people who are already here, people who are already studying, people who are working, must have their rights and their access guaranteed. But we can’t say that now, we have to say that as part of the negotiation that will shortly take place. |
| Labour MPs Yvette Cooper and Chris Bryant later told Cameron the government should pass emergency legislation now to ensure that EU nationals will not be sent home. But Cameron repeated the point about this being a matter for his successor to finalise. | Labour MPs Yvette Cooper and Chris Bryant later told Cameron the government should pass emergency legislation now to ensure that EU nationals will not be sent home. But Cameron repeated the point about this being a matter for his successor to finalise. |
| Do you also accept that such was the importance of free movement of people in the referendum that any future deal reached with our European partners that does include free movement would be regarded as a betrayal by millions of people who voted to leave? | Do you also accept that such was the importance of free movement of people in the referendum that any future deal reached with our European partners that does include free movement would be regarded as a betrayal by millions of people who voted to leave? |
| Cameron said this was for his successor to decide, but that it would be a difficult issue. | Cameron said this was for his successor to decide, but that it would be a difficult issue. |
| I’m in no doubt that this is the difficult issue. Frankly, it’s a difficult issue inside the EU, where you’ve got all the negotiating ability to try and change things, and I think it will be in many ways even more difficult from outside if you want full access to the single market to secure changes. | I’m in no doubt that this is the difficult issue. Frankly, it’s a difficult issue inside the EU, where you’ve got all the negotiating ability to try and change things, and I think it will be in many ways even more difficult from outside if you want full access to the single market to secure changes. |
| These attacks are appalling and they need to stop and it’s right everyone in this house and everyone on all sides of the referendum debate utterly condemns them. That’s not what we do in Britain. | These attacks are appalling and they need to stop and it’s right everyone in this house and everyone on all sides of the referendum debate utterly condemns them. That’s not what we do in Britain. |
| Let me say I reassured prime ministers of countries, such as Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic, who are concerned about this issue at the meeting we had last night. | Let me say I reassured prime ministers of countries, such as Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic, who are concerned about this issue at the meeting we had last night. |
| So we do monitor these attacks and the home secretary gets regular reports. | So we do monitor these attacks and the home secretary gets regular reports. |
| But I can tell the house we will be publishing a new action plan on tackling hate crime shortly to step up our response. | But I can tell the house we will be publishing a new action plan on tackling hate crime shortly to step up our response. |
| We want new steps to boost reporting of hate crime and supporting victims, new CPS guidance to prosecutors on racially aggravated crime, a new fund for protective security measures at potentially vulnerable institutions and additional funding to community organisations so they can tackle hate crime. | We want new steps to boost reporting of hate crime and supporting victims, new CPS guidance to prosecutors on racially aggravated crime, a new fund for protective security measures at potentially vulnerable institutions and additional funding to community organisations so they can tackle hate crime. |
| Whatever we can do we will do to drive these appalling hate crimes out of our country. | Whatever we can do we will do to drive these appalling hate crimes out of our country. |
| For those of you who don’t know much about me, I was born in Scotland, grew for a short time there but mainly in Wales; I had a fabulous education at a really good comprehensive school across the road from the council house where I lived; I had an amazing role model in a mother who overcame massive difficulties and worked incredibly hard for us; she took us to the public library every Saturday where I soaked up books and learning; I worked every week from the age of 12 – starting at the local corner shop, graduating to the Tesco shop floor, and paid my way through university working on building sites in various parts of the country. | For those of you who don’t know much about me, I was born in Scotland, grew for a short time there but mainly in Wales; I had a fabulous education at a really good comprehensive school across the road from the council house where I lived; I had an amazing role model in a mother who overcame massive difficulties and worked incredibly hard for us; she took us to the public library every Saturday where I soaked up books and learning; I worked every week from the age of 12 – starting at the local corner shop, graduating to the Tesco shop floor, and paid my way through university working on building sites in various parts of the country. |
| Now I count myself very blessed to have had the upbringing I did. I was brought up to believe no-one was better than me and I was no better than anyone else. I was brought up to believe that no-one is a self-made man or woman – we are all shaped and formed by our families and communities. And I was brought up to understand that nothing gets handed to you on a plate. On the rainy rugby fields of West Wales I learnt that it’s not a question of just waiting for the ball to pop out from the back of the scrum. If you want it, you do what’s required. | Now I count myself very blessed to have had the upbringing I did. I was brought up to believe no-one was better than me and I was no better than anyone else. I was brought up to believe that no-one is a self-made man or woman – we are all shaped and formed by our families and communities. And I was brought up to understand that nothing gets handed to you on a plate. On the rainy rugby fields of West Wales I learnt that it’s not a question of just waiting for the ball to pop out from the back of the scrum. If you want it, you do what’s required. |
| That last comment is a pointed dig at Boris Johnson, the Etonian favourite in the leadership contest who once said he might go for the top job if the ball came loose from the scrum. | That last comment is a pointed dig at Boris Johnson, the Etonian favourite in the leadership contest who once said he might go for the top job if the ball came loose from the scrum. |
| When asked about the fact he is relatively unknown, Crabb took another veiled swipe at Johnson. | When asked about the fact he is relatively unknown, Crabb took another veiled swipe at Johnson. |
| Two Boris burns from Crabb: https://t.co/Oxgw8iImny pic.twitter.com/A6DOwoMtqH | Two Boris burns from Crabb: https://t.co/Oxgw8iImny pic.twitter.com/A6DOwoMtqH |
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| In the Commons the SNP’s Pete Wishart has just used a point of order to say the SNP should now be treated as the official opposition because Jeremy Corbyn does not have the confidence of most Labour MPs. But John Bercow, the Speaker, said that Labour was still the official opposition. | In the Commons the SNP’s Pete Wishart has just used a point of order to say the SNP should now be treated as the official opposition because Jeremy Corbyn does not have the confidence of most Labour MPs. But John Bercow, the Speaker, said that Labour was still the official opposition. |
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| This is from ITV’s Robert Peston. | This is from ITV’s Robert Peston. |
| I am told 13,000 people joined Labour last week, with 60% giving the reason they are "supporting Corbyn".... https://t.co/TGNzled4cA | I am told 13,000 people joined Labour last week, with 60% giving the reason they are "supporting Corbyn".... https://t.co/TGNzled4cA |
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| But Sir Alan Duncan, the Conservative former international development minister, asked David Cameron at PMQs to “compare the undemonstrative competence and dignity of Angela Merkel with the theatrical and comical antics of Silvio Boris-coni”. | But Sir Alan Duncan, the Conservative former international development minister, asked David Cameron at PMQs to “compare the undemonstrative competence and dignity of Angela Merkel with the theatrical and comical antics of Silvio Boris-coni”. |
| So we can put him down as a Theresa May supporter. | So we can put him down as a Theresa May supporter. |
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| The Conservative MP David Davis, David Cameron’s main rival for the Tory leadership in 2005, has told the Daily Politics that he is backing Boris Johnson. | The Conservative MP David Davis, David Cameron’s main rival for the Tory leadership in 2005, has told the Daily Politics that he is backing Boris Johnson. |
| The biggest issue in front of us for the next several years is going to be managing Brexit, bringing about the improvement in our trade position, the control of our borders - all of those things. That needs vision, optimism, energy, drive - Boris has got them. | The biggest issue in front of us for the next several years is going to be managing Brexit, bringing about the improvement in our trade position, the control of our borders - all of those things. That needs vision, optimism, energy, drive - Boris has got them. |
| He also said he would be “amazed” if Johnson had not already got the support of more than 100 MPs. | He also said he would be “amazed” if Johnson had not already got the support of more than 100 MPs. |
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| Speaking ahead of his meeting with Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, later today, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European commission president, played down the prospect of Scotland being able to negotiate Brexit separately with the EU. He said: | Speaking ahead of his meeting with Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, later today, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European commission president, played down the prospect of Scotland being able to negotiate Brexit separately with the EU. He said: |
| I will listen carefully to what the first minister will tell me, but we don’t have the intention – neither Donald [Tusk] nor myself – to interfere in the British process. That is not our duty and not my job. | I will listen carefully to what the first minister will tell me, but we don’t have the intention – neither Donald [Tusk] nor myself – to interfere in the British process. That is not our duty and not my job. |
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| Corbyn says he will 'definitely' be on ballot paper for Labour leadership contest | Corbyn says he will 'definitely' be on ballot paper for Labour leadership contest |
| Sky’s Jon Craig says Jeremy Corbyn has told him he will “definitely” be on the ballot paper for the forthcoming Labour leadership contest. | Sky’s Jon Craig says Jeremy Corbyn has told him he will “definitely” be on the ballot paper for the forthcoming Labour leadership contest. |
| In other words, he is not resigning. | In other words, he is not resigning. |
| Spoke to a defiant Jeremy Corbyn. Says he will "definitely" be on ballot paper & described David Cameron's end-of-PMQs attack as "Flashman!" | Spoke to a defiant Jeremy Corbyn. Says he will "definitely" be on ballot paper & described David Cameron's end-of-PMQs attack as "Flashman!" |
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| Ed Miliband on Jeremy Corbyn | Ed Miliband on Jeremy Corbyn |
| This is what Ed Miliband told the World at One about why he thinks Jeremy Corbyn should now resign. | This is what Ed Miliband told the World at One about why he thinks Jeremy Corbyn should now resign. |
| We in the Labour party need to think about the country. I’ve supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along, from the moment he was elected. It was the right thing to do. I think a lot of what he stands for is very important for us going forward. But I’ve reluctantly reached a conclusion that his position is untenable … | We in the Labour party need to think about the country. I’ve supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along, from the moment he was elected. It was the right thing to do. I think a lot of what he stands for is very important for us going forward. But I’ve reluctantly reached a conclusion that his position is untenable … |
| The question, then, for him, is what’s the right thing for the country, and for the party, and for the causes he cares about? I’m not a Blairite. I’ve never been called a Blairite. I’m not a plotter. I’m somebody who cares deeply about this country, deeply about my party, and deeply about the causes that I think Jeremy and I care about. | The question, then, for him, is what’s the right thing for the country, and for the party, and for the causes he cares about? I’m not a Blairite. I’ve never been called a Blairite. I’m not a plotter. I’m somebody who cares deeply about this country, deeply about my party, and deeply about the causes that I think Jeremy and I care about. |
| I think the best thing on all of those criteria is that he stands down, painful though that will be for him and many of his supporters. | I think the best thing on all of those criteria is that he stands down, painful though that will be for him and many of his supporters. |
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| Here is a Guardian video of the Ukip MP Douglas Carswell being booed at PMQs. | Here is a Guardian video of the Ukip MP Douglas Carswell being booed at PMQs. |
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