Jeremy Corbyn says Labour could DELAY Brexit

December 8, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn says Labour could DELAY Brexit as he vows to try to topple Theresa May from No10 and renegotiate Britain’s deal

Jeremy Corbyn said he is ready to take over the crunch Brexit negotiations
He said Article 50 could be extended so Labour party can renegotiate the deal
He claimed his plan would be able to ditch the PM’s controversial Irish backstop

Jeremy Corbyn today said Labour could delay Brexit – as he repeated his vow to try to oust Theresa May and take over the crunch talks himself.

The Labour leader said he would consider extending Article 50 – the mechanism which sets a two-year clock on the talks – if he moves into No10.

And he also vowed to tear up the PM’s Brexit plan and hated Irish backstop if he takes over the negotiations.

But his comments risk infuriating Leave voters who are desperate for Britain to quit the Brussels bloc on March 29 next year.

Speaking to Sky News while on a trip to Portugal today, Mr Corbyn was challenged over whether he realistically has the time to go back and start the talks from scratch.

But he dismissed suggestions he is running out of time, saying: ‘If we go into Government straight away we would start negotiating straight away.

‘If it means holding things a bit longer to do it, of course.’

The Labour leader (pictured today) said he would consider extending Article 50 – the mechanism which sets a two-year clock on the talks – if he moves into No10

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‘But the urgency would be to say look this is what we want to achieve – these are our objectives.’

Asked directly by presenter Faisal Islam if he can ‘see an argument for extending Article 50’, Mr Corbyn replied: ‘That is an a argument that may come up.’

DUP tell ministers to abandon Brexit deal ‘roadshow’ and go back to Brussels for more talks

The DUP warned ministers to abandon their Brexit deal roadshow today instead send Theresa May back to Brussels to renegotiate the deal before disaster in Tuesday’s vote.

Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said the divorce deal was ‘fatally flawed’ while it contained the backstop on the Irish border as David Lidington, Mrs May’s deputy, visited Belfast to promote it.

Around 30 ministers are stumping for the deal around the country today despite expectations it could be defeated by up to to 200 votes in an cataclysmic humiliation for the PM on Tuesday.

Boris Johnson renewed his attack on the deal today, saying it was full of ‘exquisite humiliations’ and branding the backstop a ‘diktat that might be imposed on a nation that has suffered a military defeat.’

Mr Johnson is leading the revolt against the deal and has already moved to kill off a potential compromise amendment designed to create a series of votes on the backstop option in 2020.

Senior ministers have demanded Mrs May come up with an 11th hour escape as she fights to avoid a catastrophic defeat of her deal on Tuesday night.

More MPs were threatening to quit the Government over the deal today. Mike Wood was the latest to warn he would resign from his job as aide to Liam Fox without changes.

He said that Labour is ‘ready to step in and negotiate properly’, and he lashed the PM’s controversial backstop.

The PM’s plan would keep the UK tied to the EU customs union and extra single market checks imposed on Northern Ireland.

It has sparked the fury of Brexiteers, Remainers and the DUP – and looks set to torpedo her deal when it comes to the crunch vote next Tuesday.

Mr Corbyn tried to seize on this fury – and insisted that he was on the DUP’s side in being dead-set against the backstop.

He said: ‘They clearly dislike the backstop for a very good reason – yes you have an open border between the Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

‘But if you then transfer that border to the Irish sea yo have created a border and a problem within the UK.’

In a separate interview with Euronews, Mr Corbyn said under his plan ‘there certainly wouldn’t be a backstop from which you can’t escape’.

He added: ‘We will have to come to an agreement on a customs union, a specific customs union with the European Union that does give us the opportunity to have a say in it all, but also guarantees that level of trade’

He also later added: ‘I wouldn’t be interested in a deal that made the country poorer.’

But he exposed deep splits in Labour on Brexit as he downplayed the chances of a second referendum – despite the clamour of many of his backbenchers to throw his full weight behind it immediately.

He told Sky: ‘I think people feel that if you simply go to everyone who voted in the referendum and say sorry you got it wrong, you have got to take the vote again, that’s not reasonable and that is not sensible.’

Mr Corbyn tried to swoop in on the chaos tearing the Tories apart ahead of the crunch vote on Mrs may deal on Tuesday.

Theresa May (pictured in Maidenhead today) faced a new Brexit crisis today as the DUP and Tory rebels rejected an attempted compromise on the backstop out of hand

Liz Truss (pictured trying their hand at making black pudding today) has backed the PM’s deal despite a storm of opposition, including from any Tory MPs

Tory chairman Brandon Lewis visits food company Heck today as he was dispatched by the PM to try to sell her Brexit deal

Mrs May has sent 30 of her ministers to all four corners of the UK to desperately try to drum up support for her deal – even though a staggering 104 Tory MPs have indicated they will not back it.

If they stick to this, they will deal her a humiliating and possibly mortal defeat.

But in a fresh blow to the PM, the DUP – who are propping her up in No10 – urged her to scrap her Brexit deal roadshow today instead go back to Brussels to renegotiate.

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