UPDATE: Labour to decide on Brexit public vote on Tuesday, says Corbyn

Leader says he is ‘not a dictator’ and party will decide what’s in its European election manifesto

Labour’s ruling body will decide on Tuesday whether the party will campaign for a public vote on any Brexit deal, Jeremy Corbyn has said on the campaign trail in leave-voting Peterborough.

Almost 90 Labour MPs and MEPs, including a number of frontbenchers, wrote to the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to demand its European election manifesto includes a “clear commitment to a confirmatory public vote on any Brexit deal”.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2UYAiBj