Jeremy Corbyn has refused multiple times to say whether he would urge people to back remaining in the EU or his renegotiated Brexit deal in another referendum.
Under huge pressure from MPs and activists to endorse a strongly pro-Remain policy, he has pledged to carry out whatever voters decide in a second referendum if he wins the keys to Downing Street in an upcoming general election.
But his promise falls well short of demands from leading party figures including John McDonnell, Tom Watson and Emily Thornberry, who are calling for Labour to campaign for Remain in an EU poll. Mr Corbyn's critics in his party are likely to accuse him of yet another Brexit fudge, while top Tories are already accusing him of wanting to ignore the vote in the 2016 EU referendum and cancel its result.
He plans to copy the strategy of Labour prime minister Harold Wilson in the 1975 referendum on Common Market membership and avoid the fate of David Cameron in 2016, when he resigned after a humiliating defeat for Remain. Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Corbyn told Sky News:"I won't negative the referendum result in the way the Liberal Democrats do, and I won't take us over a cliff edge in the way Boris Johnson does."
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