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		</div><p>Scottish Labour has confirmed it will call for a public vote on any deal and campaign for Remain in another referendum.</p>
<p>Labour’s Scottish Executive Committee (SEC) backed shifting the party’s Brexit policy to one of unequivocal support for a confirmatory vote on the terms of leaving the European Union.</p>
<p>Richard Leonard, who announced his backing for a clearer stance on Brexit following “an incredibly bad result” in the European election, pledged to “wholeheartedly campaign for a Remain victory”.</p>
<p>Following the decision, Mr Leonard said: <em>“I am pleased that Scottish Labour’s Executive Committee has endorsed my call for the party to back a confirmatory vote on any Brexit deal, with Remain as an option on the ballot paper.</em></p>
<p><em>“Scottish Labour will wholeheartedly campaign for a Remain victory in such a vote.</em></p>
<p><em>“Only Scottish Labour is building a radical platform for investment in people and communities, our industries and our public services.”</em></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am pleased that <a href="https://twitter.com/scottishlabour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottishLabour</a>’s Executive Committee has endorsed my call for the party to back a confirmatory vote on any Brexit deal with Remain as an option on the ballot paper.</p>
<p>Scottish Labour will wholeheartedly campaign for a Remain victory in such a vote.</p>
<p>&mdash; Richard Leonard (@LabourRichard) <a href="https://twitter.com/LabourRichard/status/1137339120810942466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>A statement from Scottish Labour said that “there have been significant developments in the Brexit process” since their previous position was decided at the party’s conference in Dundee in March, adding: <em>“Theresa May’s deal is dead.”</em></p>
<p><em>“Scottish Labour will therefore campaign for any Brexit deal to be automatically put to the people in a confirmatory vote.</em></p>
<p><em>“We will campaign for that vote to have a clear option to Remain.</em></p>
<p><em>“Scottish Labour will campaign in the confirmatory vote to Remain in the European Union,”</em> the statement added.</p>
<p>Approximately 62% of Scottish voters backed remain-supporting parties in the European election, won in Scotland by the SNP, which secured 37.8%.</p>
<p>The SEC decision to officially support a referendum on any Brexit deal, and campaign to remain in the EU, was made during a meeting in Glasgow on Saturday in response to the loss of both MEPs in May’s election, when they slumped to fifth place with 9.3% of the vote.</p>
<p>On the day after the results were announced, Neil Findlay MSP, an ally of Mr Leonard, announced he was stepping down as Labour’s Brexit spokesman due to party infighting.</p>
<p>He was followed by justice spokesman Daniel Johnson, who resigned blaming “the current direction and leadership of the party”.</p>
<p>Commenting on the announcement of support for a confirmatory vote, Ian Murray, the people’s vote-supporting Labour MP for Edinburgh South, said: <em>“This is a very welcome decision by the SEC.</em></p>
<p><em>“I applaud Richard Leonard for listening to voters and acting so swiftly to change party policy.</em></p>
<p><em>“These words must now be turned into action and we must get out there and campaign vociferously for a final say on Brexit and for the UK to remain in the EU.”</em></p>
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