It takes a brave Labour leadership candidate to outflank the Liberal Democrats on Brexit after last month’s election result, but that is precisely what Jess Phillips did this morning.
Asked by Andrew Marr whether she could envisage campaigning to rejoin the EU should she succeed Jeremy Corbyn, the Birmingham Yardley MP said: “If our country is safer, if it is more economically viable to be in the EU, then I will fight for that, regardless of how difficult that argument is to make.”
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