'The story everyone has been MISSING' Farage reveals REAL REASON behind Brexit shock
NIGEL Farage has pointed out the real story behind all the parliamentary Brexit drama in the past week is that Labour has "become a Remainer party".
In a withering attack on the Labour Brexit policy, Nigel Farage charged the left-wing leadership headed by Jeremy Corbyn with being "shamefully dishonest" with the electorate.
The MEP laid the blame for the current political standoff in Parliament over the direction of Brexit at the feet of the Labour leadership.
Last Thursday, the majority of Labour voted against the Government’s EU Withdrawal Bill, with just two of their MPs voting with the Government.
Mr Farage said Mr Corbyn had not been forthcoming with Leave voters at the June election, claiming that his position has now moved towards accepting the single market.
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Labour is now a Remain Party
The former Ukip leader slammed the Labour party for turning overwhelmingly Blairite and pro-EU, in defiance of the five million voters for the party who also chose to leave the EU.
This comes after Tony Blair came out this weekend urging Labour to prioritise stopping Brexit over winning electoral power.
Mr Farage thinks the evidence has been mounting since Thursday to confirm that Labour is a Remainer party.
The LBC presenter said the party's position was made all the more unusual by Mr Corbyn's record of having voted against every single European treaty presented to him in the Commons since 1983.
He told listeners on his Sunday radio show on LBC: "Yes, there were Conservative rebels - but people like Ken Clarke, they have held that position for 50 years so that is nothing new.
"The story that everyone has been missing - the real reason the Government lost, the real reason Parliament now has a veto against Brexit - is that the Labour Party that has been through the big transformation."
Mr Farage added: "Labour is now a Remain Party. Corbyn played a game at the election - he appealed to Leave voters in the Midlands and up North, saying 'Trust Labour, we will end freedom of movement' - while he went down South and said 'Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, I don't want that, I want to protect the single market and champion Europe'."
"Whatever Corbyn may have voted in the past - and he has been a eurosceptic - Labour are now a Remain-led party.
"I think that Corbyn is a complete hostage to his own parliamentary party on this issue. I think they have moved quite strongly to a Remain position.
"They will oppose the government all the way through this process, they will have the support of those Tory rebels."
