Labour should APOLOGISE for Brexit policy, says Shadow Cabinet member 

Baroness Jenny Chapman said said the party needs to move on now and has a ‘tonne of work to do’

A LABOUR shadow cabinet member has said the party should apologise for pledging to overturn the result of the Brexit referendum.

Baroness Jenny Chapman said Labour should forget about pushing for a new referendum and “move forward”.

She told GB News: “Asking people to think again about that referendum was the wrong thing to ask them to do.

“I haven’t got a single issue about saying that, but we’ve got to move forward now that we’re out of the EU.

“No one wants to go through any of that again…we’ve got to make a success of where we are, outside the EU, we’ve got opportunities.”

She was speaking to Gloria De Piero during a debate on the local council elections on GB News.

Baroness Chapman said: “Look at some of the stuff the Labour Party has with [Shadow International Trade Secretary] Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds who has been talking about trade deals and new relationships around the world.

“We’re in a new reality now and we’ve got a kind of – what’s done is done and we’ve got to move forward and it’s going to be good.

“We’ve got a lot to be confident about. There are things we can do around procurement and tendering now that we couldn’t have done before, so let’s seize those, those new things that we can do and bring jobs and prosperity to the north of England.

“That’s what that’s what I came into politics to do. That’s what I’m all about. And you know, that’s where Keir Starmer wants to take us.”

Asked whether Sir Keir Starmer has done enough to persuade ex-Labour supporters who voted for Brexit to return, she said: “We have not sealed the deal with these voters by any means. We’ve got a tonne of work to do.

“We really have got to still carry on rebuilding that trust, but we’re on the way. We have turned a corner.

“As long as we keep going the way that we are, we’ve got to make clear our post-Brexit ideas for the country.

“We need to show that we’re not going to try and re-fight that argument which we’re not – we don’t intend to take the UK back into the EU, none of that.”