Yahoo News Labour drawing up plans to work with Theresa May over Brexit, leaked memo reveals
Labour are drawing up plans to work with Theresa May during over Brexit, according to reports.
Jeremy Corbyn’s most senior aide has urged the leadership to take a “constructive approach” that will risk the party “getting our hands dirty” by not voting against the Government, a leaked memo has revealed.
The email was sent to Seamus Milne, the leadership's head of strategy and communications, by the former Labour Chief Whip Rosie Winterton.
The memo, which admits that Labour is not currently “facing up to what the detailed agreements should like like” after Brexit, followed a meeting of Mr Corbyn's top team on Monday night.
It warns that Labour "will have to acknowledge that immigration has caused friction in some areas.must not be “simply seen to be opposing everything the government does”.
The email obtained by the Sun states that Labour must instead “emphasise our constructive approach” that would “show leadership”.
Concluding: “We will have to acknowledge that immigration has caused friction in some areas.
It comes after Labour peers lined up to criticise Mr Corbyn over Brexit as it emerged that more than 20 Labour members of the House of Lords are set to defy him in the second chamber.
Last night former advisers to Tony Blair and Ed Miliband, who now sit in the House of Lords, attacked Mr Corbyn for not doing enough to prevent Brexit during the referndum campaign.
As many as 20 Labour peers are now expected to vote with the Liberal Democrats, rebel Tory peers and cross benchers to amend the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, which will trigger the start of Brexit talks once it has cleared Parliament.
A spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn told the Telegraph: "Rosie spoke briefly to members of leader's office staff yesterday, and was asked to email her suggestions on how best to approach Labour's Road to Brexit conference in London on Friday."
