After the European election last month, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged to back a referendum on any Brexit deal put to parliament | Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images
Scottish Labour backs second referendum and remaining in EU
Labour's Scottish Executive Committee endorses call for another public vote.
By	Eddy Wax
6/8/19, 3:47 PM CET
The Scottish branch of the U.K.'s opposition Labour Party announced it would back a second referendum and then "wholeheartedly" campaign to stay in the European Union.
After the European election last month, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged to back a referendum on any Brexit deal put to parliament — although he did not deviate from Labour's official position, which is that the U.K. will go through with Brexit. After the Peterborough by-election, Corbyn said: "I think it would be much better if there was actually a general election."
In a statement Saturday, the leader of Labour's Scottish Executive Committee, Richard Leonard, said: "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. Scottish Labour will wholeheartedly campaign for a Remain victory in such a vote."
In the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Scotland voted to remain by 62 percent to 38 percent.
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