The United Kingdom’s opposition Labor Party faced a mounting crisis, after MP Virendra Sharma refused to back the Brexit bill, which intended to trigger the UK’s official exit from the European Union, while the Labor party’s South Asian MP quit her shadow Cabinet role over the issue.
MP for Ealing Southall, Sharma said that his constituency had "overwhelmingly" voted to remain in the European Union and their voices cannot be ignored.
Sharma said that he will not vote for a Brexit blank cheque. He said he cannot in good conscience vote, to trigger “Article 50” while it will threaten jobs of people, their wages and pensions.
Sharma said “Access to the single market and a legal commitment to ensure the rights of the labors, their health and safety protections, consumer rights and environmental standards are all keys to his political belief.”
"If we cannot get clarity on our relationship with crucial international institutions, Sharma would not vote to trigger Article 50 without a real plan for the future."
His announcement follows party colleague Tulip Siddiq's resignation from her shadow Cabinet role as education minister in order to vote against the new Brexit bill in Parliament.
The niece of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped away from the Labor frontbench following party leader Jeremy Corbyn's decision to impose a whip on Labor MPs to vote in favor of triggering Article 50.
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"On the announcement of the three-line whip on the Article 50 vote, the 34-year-old MP for Hampstead and Kilburn in north-west London said in her resignation letter, that she had no choice but to resign from her frontbench roles as a shadow minister for early years. Siddiq said that she does not support the triggering of Article 50 and cannot reconcile herself to the frontbench position
Tulip Siddiq's wrote that she had always been clear; she does not represent Westminster in Hampstead and Kilburn, but represents Hampstead and Kilburn in Westminster and also feels that most effective place for her to counter Theresa May’s hard Brexit was from the back benches.
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