Brexit
Labour to back EU referendum bill, says Harman
Acting leader Harriet Harman (pictured) has said that Labour will now support plans for an EU referendum by the end of 2017.
Harman told the Sunday Times the change in position came after they "reflected on the conversations we had on doorsteps" during the election.
The PM has pledged to renegotiate a "better deal" for the UK and hold an 'in/out' referendum by the end of 2017.
Harman told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the party would still campaign for the UK to stay in the EU.
She said: "Whether we are in the European Union or not is a huge, important, constitutional, political, economic decision."
The Conservatives were bringing forward a bill to allow the referendum to happen, said Harman, and Labour "wouldn't succeed" in stopping it.
She added: "There just does not seem to be the public appetite for us to man the barricades against a referendum that appears inevitably going to happen. We will vote for the bill and then get into the big questions for and against Europe."
Labour's decision to support the referendum bill, which is expected to be in Wednesday's Queen's Speech, means it should be able to speed through Parliament without serious delays.
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