Labour leaves the the world waiting an hour before responding to the announcement that government cannot trigger Article 50 without recourse to parliament. “Jeremey Corbyn”, it mistypes, “says there must be transparency and accountability to parliament on the terms of Brexit”.
This email cock up isn’t Clinton-esque in scale, but it too reveals a catastrophic lack of foresight. We have known about the High Court’s scheduled announcement for weeks. The press secretary’s finger should have been hovering over the send button with pre-prepared statements for either outcome. Yet Labour did not offer anything until it was practically old news.
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