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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged on Sunday to offer voters a choice between staying in the European Union and a “credible” deal. He added his party would guide him on how to campaign in a second Brexit referendum, But so far the Labour leader, a leftist who is an instinctive critic of the EU, has struck a neutral stance, saying it was more important to hold the party together by embracing its “remainers” and those who want to leave the bloc. Just weeks before Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to leave the EU “do or die”, Labour, like the governing Conservatives, is deeply divided over Brexit, deepening uncertainty over Britain’s departure, the country’s biggest trade and foreign policy decision for more than 40 years. On the eve of a conference when party officials hoped to present Labour as a government in waiting, a new row broke out when an ally of Corbyn tried to oust deputy leader Tom Watson over Brexit. Corbyn stepped in to defuse the stand-off. He again appealed...

Stroke of genius or insanity? UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to be exploring plans to build a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Johnson has asked government officials to look at the costs and risks of building a 28-mile bridge across the Irish Sea, Channel 4 News reported Tuesday. The prime minister has reportedly asked officials to examine “where this money could come from” as well as “the risks around the project,” one of which appears to be unexploded bombs dropped into the sea during World War II. Johnson first floated the idea of a Brexit bridge across the Irish Sea when he was foreign secretary in 2018 and has apparently revived it since entering Downing Street. His proposal was, at the time, branded by one expert as a “thoughtless soundbite” that “no sane contractor or responsible government” would sanction. Writing to The Sunday Times, James Duncan, a retired offshore engineer from Edinburgh, said the idea was “about as feasible as building a brid...