At the 2018 party conference, BEFORE May had brought her deal back to Parliament, they voted for a second referendum.

Labour members were never, ever going to allow the party to vote through a Tory Brexit


Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Well the clever thing to do when they were still sitting on the fence would have been to allow May's deal to go through by making it a free vote and encouraging abstentions from those in leave-voting constituencies (on the grounds that the people's will had to be respected or some such guff). That would have looked noble and magnanimous and allowed the party free rein to still criticise the outcomes with relatively clean hands.