Scottish Labour throws weight behind second Brexit vote

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard answers questions after the party’s poor showing in the European election. Photograph: Ken Jack/Getty ImagesRichard Leonard, the Scottish Labour leader, is to ask his party to back an automatic second referendum on Brexit and to support remain, to head off a crisis over the party’s disastrous European election. Scottish Labour officials said the new policy would be put to the party’s executive committee a week on Saturday after it suffered