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October 18, 2019

Corbyn Urges Labour Party Members to Reject New Brexit Deal
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British lawmakers are scheduled to vote Saturday on a new Brexit deal
reached between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European
Union. Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Labour Party cannot
support the Brexit deal.

Jeremy Corbyn: "This is a day when the prime minister seems to have made
a deal with the European Union which doesn't give us the complete
freedom of movement between Britain and Northern Ireland, because it
creates a customs union border down the Irish Sea. And secondly, it does
nothing to deal with all the concerns that we've raised during Theresa
May's premiership and his about a race to the bottom in rights and
protections, and we believe the deal he's proposed is heading Britain in
the direction of a deregulated society with the sell-off of national
assets to American corporations."



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