Labour Party prepared to back a second Brexit vote

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party is set to back a second referendum on Brexit if the group’s proposed amendments for the U.K. exiting the European Union are rejected by Parliament.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will meet with fellow members on Tuesday night, where he will tell them that the party will put forward a series of amendments on a proposed, highly controversial Brexit deal to be voted on this week.

{mosads}If those proposals are rejected, Labour will back a second public vote.

“One way or another, we will do everything in our power to prevent No Deal and oppose a damaging Tory Brexit based on [Prime Minister] Theresa May’s overwhelmingly rejected deal,” Corbyn will tell party members, according to a news release.

This week Labour will put its alternative plan for a vote in the House of Commons.

If Parliament rejects our plan, then Labour will deliver on the promise we made at our annual conference and support a public vote. https://t.co/EjCifYCDJP

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) February 25, 2019

The lower house in the British Parliament, the House of Commons, voted last month 432-202 to reject May’s proposed Brexit deal that she’d brokered with the EU.

The overwhelming defeat prompted critics of Brexit to call for a new referendum, but May and other conservative officials still largely back leaving the EU.

U.K. voters said in a 2016 referendum that they wanted to leave the continental body.

Lawmakers in the United Kingdom have until March 29 to approve a Brexit deal, or it will leave the EU without any arrangement in place.