Labour’s Brexit shift was pencilled in earlier than publicly acknowledged. In Frances O’Grady’s Trades Union Congress files is a letter written before the summer by the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, which, a union snout informs me, committed the party to seeking extended membership of the single market and customs union.
The canny O’Operator demanded a formal undertaking after receiving a verbal assurance over union fears about jobs and trade. The workers, united, will never be defeated.
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