Here's a snippet from an email sent to Labour Party members today. Note the complete lack of any reference to brexit.

The Tories have no plan and are failing Britain - with a housing crisis; underinvestment in our children's education; a failing economy; and an NHS pushed into a state of emergency.

Here's my question for PMQs week...

[box provided for typing my question]

Each Wednesday, Jeremy Corbyn will put questions to Theresa May. Let us know what question you'd like him to ask this week...



Here's an extract from a piece in today's Oberver, outlining the pressure from various sources to make Labour change direction on brexit.

Corbyn under pressure to shift Brexit stance

(Michael Savage. Policy editor)

Jeremy Corbyn has come under intense pressure to shift Labour's position on Brexit after 20,000 members demanded a say over the issue and former leader Neil Kinnock backed halting Britain's EU exit altogether.

It is understood that the Labour leader will also be confronted by some in his shadow cabinet this week who want him to back remaining in the single market and customs union.

Speaking to the Observer, Kinnock said he had been angered by claims from Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, that the NHS should benefit from the money saved by leaving the European Union. He said the reality was that "we should stop Brexit to save the NHS" or at the very least "mitigate the damage" by staying within the single market.
"Even contempt for 'experts' cannot obscure the evidence that the Johnson-led Brexit vote has already damaged and will inflict future harm on the NHS," Kinnock said. Meanwhile "vitally - Brexit has already diminished, and will continue to depress, the revenues on which the NHS depends.

"If Johnson really wanted the extra NHS spending, which is sorely needed, he wouldn't be using the issue as a ploy to feed his lust for the Tory leadership but would be working to end Brexit.

"The truth is that we can either take the increasingly plain risks and costs of leaving the EU or have the stability, growth and revenues vital for crucial public services like the NHS and social care. Recognising that, we should stop Brexit to save the NHS, or, at very least, mitigate the damage by seeking European Economic Area membership."

Labour is currently backing a "jobs first" Brexit, but what this would mean in practice has remained vague. The party was sharply criticised when it emerged that none of the eight policy commissions it has set up since the elections focuses on Brexit.

The pressure on Labour's leadership comes as a second major donor pledged a six-figure sum to fund a campaign to stop Brexit and warned that he would "not be silenced." Stephen Peel, an Olympic rower and former Tory donor, said he had not been put off by attacks aimed at George Soros, the billionaire financier who faced a backlash from Brexiters after giving 400,000 pounds to a new anti-Brexit campaign.

He told the Observer he was giving 100,000 pounds to Best for Britain, which is organising a grassroots anti-Brexit campaign...

...He added: "We have heard the strident calls from those against us to try and close down debate and silence discussion over the disaster that Brexit appears to be. I for one, will not be silenced and will do all I can to support groups such as Best for Britain who seek to engage people across the country and make the case for Britain to lead, not leave Europe.

"The key task is to empower the people of Britain, provide clear information on Brexit, and encourage them to make their views known to their representatives in parliament."