• THE Conservatives have let down this country with how they have handled Brexit.

The process has been farcical; and even though Jeremy Corbyn has negotiated a much better deal than Theresa May, Labour must step up and support remain.

There is no possible deal that is better than remain and we must be honest about this, regardless of how the referendum went.

I, alongside 20 000 + constituents in Hampstead & Kilburn, signed a petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked and firmly believe that revoking Article 50 is the right course of action.

We must challenge the false narrative that has been spun about Brexit being “the will of people”.

It’s not the will of people, the vote was on a knife-edge and on a different day, with a different level of turn-out, it could have gone the other way. There is no mandate for anything.

We can’t even change the Hampstead & Kilburn Labour Party standing orders on anything less than a two-thirds majority, which is the norm in politics for constitutional changes.

Labour must come out in support of remain and fight tooth and nail to win the argument, and voices on the left of the party need to lead the argument for remain being the socialist position.

REBECCA SHIRAZI
Vice-Chair Campaigns
Hampstead & Kilburn
Labour Party