"The leave vote was about community, belonging and identity and whether you agree with that or not I don't think you should sneer at it," says former Vote Leave chair @GiselaStuart#r4Today | @JustinOnWeb | bbc.in/2ObV6jd
Labour cannot simply be a party of big cities and university towns. Nor just a party of the young. Or a party of devoted Remainers. We must be a party of labour. A party close to working class people. People we haven’t listened to or respected enough.
After losing her Don Valley seat, which she held for 22 years, an emotional Caroline Flint said: “What is the point of the Labour party if we don't respect and represent those (working class) voices?" bbc.in/2EagMqz#ge2019#bbcelection@BBCLookNorth
Labour has paid a bitter price for failing to understand its voters, ignoring their revulstion at antisemitism, rejection of extremism and its Remain obsession.
The disasterous election result for Labour was in part because Labour's Remainers ignored Leave voters but left ideology and anti-Jewish racism cost Labour support too.
There is no mandate for a second referendum or a Brexit blocking Parliament. Labour MPs were elected on promises to deliver Brexit. They should stop making up excuses, vote for an election and face the voters with their new position.
Johnson under pressure on workers rights. Fascinating here to watch so many MPs struggle with the concept that they - or their successors - will decide. They've got so used to the EU deciding this stuff they can't get their heads round the idea they and British voters can do it.
It was mere months ago when Philip Hammond said that Boris would never get the EU to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement... yet that's exactly what he's done. #WrongThenWrongNow
Every MP elected under the Conservative banner was elected on manifesto and core campaign promises to leave the Single Market and Customs Union. They must not break that promise.
The people know what they wanted for - they voted to come out of the Single Market and Customs Union, not to have Remain MPs pretend to second guess them.