Brexit: Labour Being Made To Look Silly!

The crucial legislation was comfortably given its second reading in the Commons by a margin of 326 to 290 - a majority of 36. Earlier, Labour MPs had made clear they intended to defy Jeremy Corbyn's order to oppose the bill. Former minister Frank Field said he would be voting for the'referendum result to be implemented'. His colleague Caroline Flint insisted she would be ignoring Labour's three-line whip to abstain so the legislation can proceed. But ominously for the government, senior Tory MPs were among those who demanded changes to the proposals at a later stage in the parliamentary process. Mail.