Emboldened UK Labour Party divided over the B-word: Brexit
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Britain's opposition Labour Party is holding its annual conference, buoyed by an unexpectedly strong election showing but facing an internal a divide over Brexit.
Many Labour members want the left-of-center party to slow or stop Britain's exit from the European Union. But the party has yet to decide whether it wants the U.K. to be in the EU, semi-detached or fully out of the bloc.
Pro-EU party members failed to get a vote about Brexit onto the agenda at the four-day conference, which runs until Wednesday in the seaside city of Brighton.
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Party finance spokesman John McDonnell said Monday that the party needs time to build consensus before putting its Brexit policy to a vote.
But lawmaker Heidi Alexander says Labour is "a laughing stock" for dodging the issue.