Brexit news: Labour votes against backing Remain in new referendum, as Boris Johnson denies misusing public funds
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Your support makes all the difference.Labour‘s annual conference has rejected a motion calling for the party to oppose Brexit in all circumstances.
Delegates at the gathering in Brighton voted down a plan that would have seen the party support Remain in any future referendum. They instead backed a proposal from the party leadership that will see Labour delay deciding its position until after a general election.
The decision – which was based on a show of hands – proved highly controversial, with some observers suggesting it was a “stitch up”.
However others were pleased with the approval of the leader’s stance on Brexit, and around half of the delegates began chanting “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn”.
Elsewhere, Boris Johnson is facing a probe into allegations he failed to declare potential conflicts of interest as London mayor over the allocation of public money to an American businesswoman.
Officials at City Hall and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport are looking into Mr Johnson’s ties with Jennifer Arcuri, with MPs calling for the PM to quit if claims are substantiated.
Mr Johnson initially refused to answer questions about the allegations before eventually insisting that “everything was done with complete propriety”.
The prime minister went on to meet European Council president Donald Tusk at the UN General Assembly in New York. Mr Tusk later tweeted that there had been “no breakthrough”.
It came as Mr Johnson awaited Tuesday’s ruling by the Supreme Court on whether his decision to shut down parliament was unlawful or not.
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Emily Thornberry, who was among those urging Jeremy Corbyn to take a clear Remain stance, has been defending herself from criticism of her speech/attempted-joke at conference. The most common response to it from Twitter users was the single word "cringe".
Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths, is in favour of Remain, if only because Brexit is due to take place on his 56th birthday.
A 'Big Labour figure" turns to obscenity to describe the party's position on Brexit...
Boris Johnson has accused Iran of being behind the drone attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, while declaring that he wants a new nuclear deal with the Islamic republic.
The prime minister said that the UK could attribute blame with a "very high degree of probability" and refused to rule out providing military assistance.
Donald Trump praised Mr Johnson's stance. The president said: "That's why he's a winner. That's why he's a man who's going to be successful in the UK. Boris is a man, who... number one, he's a friend of mine. Number two, he's very smart, very tough.
"I respect Boris a lot and I'm not at all surprised that he was the first one to come out and say that."
However Iran rejected the PM's remarks as "fruitless efforts", adding: "The British Government should stop selling lethal weapons to Saudi Arabia".
"We will never renegotiate a deal that took us years to reach," a senior official told Reuters news agency. "Iran's leadership supports diplomacy but if Americans want to ease tension, they should lift sanctions and end pressure on Tehran."
The prime minister also came under fire from British sock makers, after claiming that red tape locks them out of the US market.
"The Americans insist, before they allow British socks to be sold on the US market, that they must try to set fire to them twice,” he added, bizarrely.
Former Labour MP Luciana Berger, who joined the Lib Dems earlier this month, has called her old party "a Brexit facilitating party".
She adds: "It’s an embarrassment to watch and a complete dereliction of duty."
Labour's conference vote on its Brexit policy was "the shabbiest spectacle I've ever seen", writes The Independent's political sketch writer Tom Peck.
"To everyone present, it looked fairly evenly split... There were gasps and cheers in equal measure.... There was the option, at this point, to count up the votes properly. But that was rejected too.
"Half the hall, and I do mean half, exactly half, began chanting 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn.'"
ITV's political editor Robert Peston apologises for his comparison of the Labour conference decision on Brexit to "the tactic's of China's leaders".
Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer attempts to remain positive by pointing out that Labour has pledged to have a second referendum.
"In that referendum Remain is going to be an option and the only other option is going to be a deal," he tells a conference fringe event.
"Would I have liked it to have gone a bit further and won that vote today? Of course I would.
"But I don't want to take away from the fact that is quite considerable movement over the course of 12 months."
He said it was "very likely the members will want us to campaign for Remain" when the policy is decided at the promised special conference after the next general election.
Mr Starmer admitted he had "mixed feelings" about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn having a neutral position on Brexit until the policy is decided.
He said: "Brexit is a very, very difficult issue for the Labour Party, obviously.
"What Jeremy is trying to achieve, in fairness, is to say that given the division across the country, somebody has got to be prepared to say we'll have a referendum to try to find a way forward and I'll stay above that and faithfully implement the outcome."
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