Originally Posted by
ragingpup
Rock and hard place. Many labour members want a referendum push, many labour supporters/voters will see this as betrayal.
Labour will back a referendum if all else fails but whilst other means are still to resolve, a move in this direction now will alienate labour leavers. If the vote fails as expected, a confidence vote fails, no general election manifests (and Corbyn knows this succession of events could take a week to be clarified, hence thepush to get the vote out of the way) then I would expect a referendum agenda - simply as there would be no majority mandate left on the table. To push before this is confirmed though will alienate labour leavers who want to leave but not at No Deal cost.