Labour pledges to ‘get Brexit sorted within six months’

Jeremy Corbyn says he is ‘determined to bring a divided country together.’

LONDON — Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launched his election campaign with a pledge to “get Brexit sorted within six months.”

He said that if elected at the December 12 ballot, Labour would negotiate a new Brexit deal with Brussels and put that to a referendum within half a year. “We need to take it out of the hands of politicians and trust the people,” he said.

At a campaign launch event in south London, the Labour leader attacked the Conservatives for failing to resolve Brexit in the more than three years since the referendum. “Today is 31 October, the day that Boris Johnson promised that we would leave the EU,” he said. “But he has failed, and that failure is his alone.”

“Johnson’s sell-out deal would lead to years of continuing negotiations and uncertainty. Labour will get Brexit sorted by giving the people the final say in six months,” Corbyn said.

His government would hold a referendum on “whether to leave with a sensible deal or remain,” Corbyn said. “We will carry out whatever the people decide,” he added, but refused to say if he would vote to leave or remain in the EU.

A spokesperson for the European Commission reiterated today that it wasn’t possible to renegotiate the Brexit deal. However, the EU did reopen negotiations on the Withdrawal Agreement with Johnson, despite having ruled it out.

“Labour is determined to bring a divided country together,” Corbyn said, contrasting himself with the Liberal Democrats whose leader, Jo Swinson, has said she would revoke Article 50 if she won a parliamentary majority. “The Lib Dems want to cancel the democratic vote with a parliamentary stitch-up,” Corbyn said.

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Corbyn said that despite Johnson’s denials, “the NHS is up for grabs by U.S. corporations” as part of a planned trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump. That remark sparked cheers and chants of “not for sale” from the audience of Labour activists.

“Britain needs to get beyond Brexit and deal with the damage done to our communities by a decade of Tory cuts and economic failure,” Corbyn said.