Labour must break party's silence on Brexit, says Stella Creasy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : One senior member of the front bench said: "All this does is create a vacuum, one in which we say nothing at all, and Johnson can dictate the debate about Europe and Brexit.
59% : Writing for the Observer, Labour MP calls on the leadership to 'name' problems, as frustration grows with its stance on EuropeA prominent Labour MP today condemns her party's self-imposed silence on Brexit, saying it is playing into Boris Johnson's hands and hampering attempts to tackle urgent issues such as the cost of living crisis and climate change.
59% : "For fear of saying the wrong thing, many in Labour claim it is better to say nothing at all about Brexit.
53% : Labour, she argues, cannot and must not wait until after the next general election to speak out about areas in which Brexit is clearly failing, and the benefits of cooperating more closely with our European neighbours.
52% : Ben Tausz, from the Labour Campaign for Free Movement, said: "Ending free movement was the biggest expansion of border controls in the UK's recent history, but attacks on migrants' rights and human rights are still intensifying.
49% : Many of these MPs say Starmer should make a speech spelling out how Labour accepts that Brexit is irreversible and is not in favour of re-entering the EU, but is still true to its values as an internationalist party that wants to build closer links with our European partners.
47% : But there are those who would like to see closer involvement with the single market under a Labour government, and a return to EU free-movement rules, particularly as evidence grows that Brexit is harming trade, and contributing to rising prices.
35% : MPs saw his remarks as an instruction not to allow themselves to be branded as too pro-EU in the media, or by the Tories.

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