Starmer opens Labour's Brexit debate and says 'nobody is ruling out remain' – Politics live

Rolling coverage of the Labour conference in Liverpool, including the debate on Brexit and a second referendumKeir Starmer’s morning interviews on Brexit – SummaryLunchtime summary 3.03pm BST Colin Monehen, a delegate from Harlow, has just finished a speech moving the contemporary composite on Palestine. It was very powerful stuff – one of the most emotional speeches of the day – and it started with Monehen asking delegates to imagine two babies born in Jerusalem, one Israeli and one Palestinian, and he went on to describe the plight of thousands of Palestinians forced out of their homes when Israel was created in 1948. He said the UK could not ignore the need to put right this injustice because it was involved in what happened. Towards the end of his speech the conference chair told him his time was up. Monehen said they would have to send an army to get him off the stage because he was speaking for the Palestinians, and he was allowed to finish.Some delegates are waving Palestinian flags. That prompted another delegate to stand up complaining about double standards; in the morning, he said, some people wanted to wave EU flags, but the stewards would not allow it, he said. 2.34pm BST Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, told a fringe meeting at lunchtime that article 50 should be extended (ie, that Brexit should be postponed beyond 29 March 2019), my colleague Lisa O’Carroll reports.Thornberry: “[we] need to extend article 50, and essentially turn up in Europe and say the ‘grown ups have turned up now, let’s sit down and talk” Continue reading…
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