• LABOUR councillors must respect the result of Camden’s 2016 Brexit referendum and back a motion next week calling for an immediate public referendum on the deal that Theresa May brings back from Brussels.

The motion is first to be discussed on Monday November 12. The only problem for the Labour councillors who hold the majority of the seats on the council is that it has been put forward by the Lib Dems.

I would ask them to suspend partisan politics and vote for the motion, based on the fact that in 2016 Camden residents voted to stay in the EU by a margin of three to one. If anything that margin has widened in the wake of the government’s disastrous negotiations.

Labour councillors have put forward their motion but it is based a triple hypothetical – Theresa May loses the vote on her deal; Labour fails to secure a general election; a public vote is chosen as the next option. By the time the Commons has got through all that, the UK will have fallen out of the EU.

That motion simply copies what Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer managed to get past Jeremy Corbyn and approved by the Labour party conference. But this is Camden – and our councillors should respect the views of its voters rather than cosy up to Labour HQ. Email your ward councillor.

PHIL THORNTON
Lisburne Road, NW3