Jubilant People's Vote campaigners today seized on Jeremy Corbyn accepting a new vote might be needed as a 'big step' toward a second referendum on Brexit.
Because of Theresa May's catastrophic defeat on her Brexit deal last week, next Tuesday she must hold a vote on her Plan B. Other MPs can try to re-write it.
It emerged overnight the Labour leader's amendment acknowledges a re-run is an 'option' Parliament must consider, alongside renegotiating the deal.
It is the first time Labour's leadership has accepted the idea in the Commons and is a signal the internal party battle to win over Mr Corbyn to a referendum might be working.
Labour MP and People's Vote campaigner David Lammy welcomed the announcement and demanded Parliament 'hand the final say' on Brexit back to voters.
Labour has been rocked by division since its party conference accepted the possibility of a referendum if forcing a general election proved impossible.
Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has been publicly pushing backing for a vote since Mr Corbyn's motion of no confidence in the Government failed last week.
So far the Labour leader had resisted - insisting he wanted to deliver Brexit on his own terms and in fear of alienating Labour Leave voters in the north.
Mr Corbyn's amendment, which will be voted on next Tuesday, would require the Government to set aside time to debate and vote on alternative Brexit plans, including Labour's proposal for a permanent customs union
Labour MP and People's Vote campaigner David Lammy (pictured in Westminster last week) welcomed the announcement and demanded Parliament 'hand the final say' on Brexit back to voters
But tabling his amendment last night, the Mr Corbyn said: 'The prime minister is both refusing to change her red lines or take the threat of a no deal exit off the table. MPs must now act to break the deadlock.
'Our amendment will allow MPs to vote on options to end this Brexit deadlock and prevent the chaos of a No Deal.
'It is time for Labour's alternative plan to take centre stage, while keeping all options on the table, including the option of a public vote.'
Mr Lammy said: 'It is a big step forward that for the first time my party is acknowledging in a parliamentary amendment that a People's Vote may be the only way forward.'
He added: 'If there is any doubt over whether the preferred deal delivers, Parliament should hand the final say on this crucial issue back to the British people.
'I hope this approach can signal the beginning of the end of years of argument and division over Brexit in this country.'
Ex-Labour minister Ben Bradshaw was among the MPs to back the shift as 'important progress'.
But the move did not go far enough for other MPs.
A cross-party group of medical doctors, including the Tory Sarah Wollaston, want to stage a vote on Tuesday directly on whether to call a referendum.
The amendments come after Mrs May warned yesterday that a second Brexit referendum could damage social cohesion and undermine public trust in British democracy.
Mrs May warned MPs they had given too little thought to the damage a second poll would do to public trust.
Updating MPs on her Brexit Plan B she said: 'There has not yet been enough recognition of the way in which a second referendum could damage social cohesion by undermining faith in our democracy.'
A senior aide denied she was predicting violence, but added: 'It is not unreasonable to think there may be bad feeling or rancour.'
Mrs May warned MPs they had given too little thought to the damage a second poll would do to public trust. A senior aide denied she was predicting violence, but added: 'It is not unreasonable to think there may be bad feeling or rancour'
Mrs May's warning comes less than a fortnight after Transport Secretary – and Brexiteer – Chris Grayling said that blocking Brexit could 'open the door' to 'extremist' populist political forces.
He said the millions who voted to Leave the EU would feel 'cheated' and putting a stop to Britain's withdrawal from the EU could end centuries of 'moderate' politics. He predicted a 'less tolerant society'.
Yesterday the Prime Minister acknowledged that her approach to Brexit 'had to change' following the thumping Commons defeat for her plan last week.
In an olive branch to critics in Westminster and Brussels yesterday, she announced that the £65 fee for EU citizens to register for 'settled status' in the UK would be scrapped.
She effectively put the DUP in the driving seat in the talks with Brussels by pledging to secure concessions on the controversial Irish backstop, in the hope this will win over her Eurosceptic opponents.
And she told wavering Labour MPs she was ready to go further in protecting workers' rights and environmental standards after Britain leaves the EU.
DUP leader Arlene Foster and deputy leader Nigel Dodds are pictured outside Downing Street earlier this week. Mrs May's governing partners in the DUP joined forces with 118 Eurosceptic rebels last week to help sink her deal in the Commons
Mrs May also offered MPs on all sides a much greater say in the next stage of negotiations, including briefings on the state of play.
But she ruled out a change of direction. She warned MPs plotting to frustrate Brexit that they 'cannot wish away No Deal' – saying the only way to avoid it was to vote for a deal or scrap Brexit altogether. The warning came as:
- Poland's foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz broke ranks in the EU to suggest the backstop could be time-limited to five years – an idea quickly ruled out by Dublin;
- A string of Eurosceptic MPs said they would drop their opposition to Mrs May's deal if she can secure concessions on the Irish backstop that will guarantee the UK could not be trapped in a permanent customs union;
- Mrs May warned that MPs trying to delay Brexit were simply 'deferring the point of decision';
- Business minister Richard Harrington warned No Deal could result in car giants such as Jaguar Land Rover leaving the UK;
- An internal Border Force document reportedly suggested that cross-channel freight trade could plunge by between 75 and 87 per cent if there is no deal;
- Mrs May rubbished reports she was preparing to reopen the Good Friday Agreement in a last-ditch bid to resolve the Brexit backstop;
- The Lords voted to block further progress on the Trade Bill until ministers provide more detail on their post-Brexit plans;
- The Queen could be 'drawn into the toxic politics of Brexit', warned Sir Stephen Laws, a former chief legal adviser to the Government.
Mrs May also offered MPs on all sides a much greater say in the next stage of negotiations, including briefings on the state of play. But she ruled out a change of direction
Mrs May's governing partners in the DUP joined forces with 118 Eurosceptic rebels last week to help sink her deal in the Commons.
Yesterday, she told the DUP's deputy leader Nigel Dodds she was ready to return to Brussels and ask for 'the necessary changes to be made' to the backstop.
She said she wanted to tackle 'two key issues – its potential permanency, and the impact on the Union.
A number of prominent Tory Eurosceptics also suggested they could drop their wider opposition to her deal.
Sir Graham Brady, who voted against the deal last week, said he believed the PM's plan could be salvaged if she can secure a 'mechanism for leaving' the Irish backstop.
Sir Graham, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs, said he also believed the deal was the only plan that had a chance of getting through Parliament.
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