Tom Watson: ‘If Labour members call for a people’s vote on Brexit, then we must respect that’

The deputy leader insists that the party can be unified and says MPs who oppose Jeremy Corbyn must stay and fight

Tom Watson is a peculiarity. Labour’s deputy leader is the only nonbeliever who was in Jeremy Corbyn’s first shadow cabinet and is still sitting there – much turmoil and many waves of resignations later.

This does not mean he is trusted by the Corbynites, many of whom have regarded him as a sworn enemy since the attempt to oust the Labour leader two summers ago. Yet Watson insists that their relationship is a good one. “Despite what people say. We text regularly. We talk about the kids. We usually have a lot of football talk. One thing we agree on is that we should spend less time in each other’s company at NEC [national executive committee] meetings, because the last one was nine and a half hours and it was torture.”

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