Labour rebels who backed Theresa May on Brexit placed on new ‘hitlist’ by furious People’s Vote bosses
Furious second referendum supporters will launch a campaign this weekend that aims to 'shame' the 13 MPs who sided with Theresa May on Brexit
LABOUR rebels who sided with Theresa May on Brexit this week are on a new “hit ist” drawn up by furious People’s Vote chiefs.
Sources told The Sun that furious second referendum supporters will this weekend launch a campaign to try and “shame” Labour MPs who backed the PM into changing their mind.
It comes as the head of separate campaign group Best for Britain, calls for Labour to “de-select” or boot out the MPs who opposed Yvette Cooper’s parliamentary plan to delay Brexit.
The 13 on the People’s Vote hit list include Judith Cummins, Emma Lewell-Buck, Yvonne Fovargue, Ruth Smeeth and Shadow Housing Minister Melanie Onn.
The move pitches Labour MPs backing a second referendum such as Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting against their own colleagues.
EU-supporting Labour MPs are already furious at the Government for declaring it will plough cash into Labour ‘Leave’ seats after Brexit.
One insider said: “These Labour MPs need to dump their support for Theresa May’s Brexit deal or they will get dumped. These MPs have to decide - is voting with the Tories worth de-selection.”
The move follows furious infighting among second referendum campaigners following the defeat of the so-called Cooper-Boles plan to delay Brexit on Tuesday.
Sources claim Tory Sarah Wollaston and Labour’s Chris Leslie were livid with People’s Vote for refusing to put an amendment down calling for a second referendum in the Commons.
One said: “There’s going to be a change of tactics. What went before clearly didn’t work.”
Ex-Labour MP Frank Field – who now sits as an independent - brushed off criticism yesterday over extra money for Leave seats.
The Birkenhead MP said he wanted to be involved in any “payout for northern constituencies”.
The Sun Says: Labour of hate
THE Second Referendum campaigners don’t know they’re beaten.
Parliament this week sent them a clear message — their hopes to overturn the biggest democratic mandate in our country’s history will come to nothing.
But now they have turned their guns on Brexit-supporting Labour MPs who have put constituents and country above their pathetic party’s posturing.
These low-grade nobodies are already so bloated with self-importance that they’re happy to say they know better than 17million Leave voters. And they DARE to target MPs for the crime of voting for what their constituents want?
It’s exactly the sort of ideological purity battle Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour specialises in. The Tories need to show they’re above that.
We don’t agree with much of Nick Boles’s plan for a Brexit so soft as to be barely Brexit at all. This week’s amendment, co-signed by Boles and Yvette Cooper, could have holed the whole operation below the waterline.
But that does not mean he should be deselected. The Tory party has always been a broad church and it serves as a better party of government when pragmatism is its guiding force.
For the first time in months, the Conservatives have shown the sort of professionalism and unity that the public expects of them.
They must keep it together.
And he said other Labour MPs should be “fighting me at the front of the queue” to the back the PM.
A spokesperson for People’s Vote last night said: “Local campaigners are encouraging both Labour and Conservative MPs to back a People’s Vote and will be out and about across the country this weekend to make their voices heard in those seats.”
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