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🚩 RAYNER CONFIRMS NO SECOND REFERENDUM: Plan is to reverse Brexit via Labour’s next manifesto! Angela Rayner has let the cat out of the bag on Labour’s plan to reverse Brexit. On @LBC, Lewis Goodall put it to her that any serious move to rejoin the EU must be subject to a second referendum. She said no. Instead, she confirmed the plan is to put rejoining in Labour’s next manifesto and let a general election decide it: “I would expect that in the run up to the next general election, when we put it to the country, that the country then can see what the Labour Party is offering and whether they want to re-elect a Labour government.” There it is, straight from the horse’s mouth (no pun intended). This is a disgrace and fundamentally undemocratic. The 2016 Brexit vote brought out millions of people who had long given up on politics, voters who had never cast a ballot in their lives. Labour now wants to tell them their vote was meaningless and can be quietly overturned without their specific consent. They constantly lecture the public about “getting involved” and “making your voice heard”. Yet when those same people turned out for one of the biggest democratic votes in this country’s history, Labour’s answer is to sidestep that result entirely. A general election is not the place to settle a constitutional question of this magnitude. Labour’s last “landslide” was nothing of the sort once you look at the numbers. A low vote share and a fragmented opposition handed them a huge majority. Treating that as a mandate to drag Britain back into the EU without a dedicated referendum is a calculated insult to the voters who delivered Brexit. If they go ahead with this, it will cause uproar, and rightly so. Don’t do it.