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U.K. Votes: Corbyn Neutral on Brexit, Johnson Forced to Deny Racism
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2:35Now PlayingU.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would stay neutral in a referendum on any new deal he negotiates with the European Union, as U.K. party leaders faced televised questions from voters ahead of the Dec. 12 general election.
Boris Johnson was forced to deny he had been racist in his newspaper columns and faced tough questioning over his Conservative Party’s record on the National Health Service as the audience repeatedly returned to questions over his trustworthiness.
Jeremy Corbyn was asked whether he would campaign for Leave or Remain under his plan to negotiate another a new deal with the EU then put it to a second referendum.
He gave a more detailed answer than he has previously, saying he would adopt a neutral stance in that second vote. “My role as Prime Minister will be to adopt a neutral stance so I can credibly carry out the result,” he said.
Corbyn has pledged to agree a new deal with the EU in his first three months in office and then put it to a referendum, with remaining in the bloc as the option on the ballot paper.
“My role and the role of our government will be to ensure that that referendum will be held in a fair atmosphere and we will abide by the result of it,” Corbyn said. He would be neutral so “I can credibly carry out the result, to bring our country together rather than carrying on a debate about Brexit.”
The Conservative leader Boris Johnson kicked off by responding to questions on interference in the Brexit referendum and his own mandate to pursue his Brexit deal.
“It seems to have mutated now,” he said of Corbyn’s plan, after the Labour leader revealed earlier he would remain neutral in a second referendum campaign. “I don’t see how he’s going to a deal when he’s neutral or indifferent about that deal.”
He then repeated his own pledge to get Brexit done, which led presenter Fiona Bruce to joke that it only took three minutes for him to say it.
Johnson asserted that there is no evidence of Russian interference in British democracy and defended his refusal to publish a Parliamentary report into the issue.
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