LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND ¨C Britain¡¯s opposition Labour Party prefers a new election to a second referendum on Brexit, its leader said Sunday, heaping pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May whose plans for a divorce deal with the European Union have hit an impasse.
Labour¡¯s Jeremy Corbyn has so far resisted calls to back a ¡°people¡¯s vote,¡± or new referendum on the decision to quit the EU. But the political landscape has changed since May was ambushed by the EU on Thursday over her plans for Brexit ¡ª the biggest shift in British policy for almost half a century.
With talk of a new election swirling after May¡¯s ¡°Chequers¡± plan was all but shredded at an EU summit in Austria last week and chances of Britain exiting the bloc without a deal rising, Labour is under pressure to start setting the Brexit agenda.
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