Gleeful Corbyn claims May's 'botched' Brexit deal is so bad she should not even put it to a vote

A gleeful Jeremy Corbyn seized on Theresa May's 'botched' Brexit deal today to claim it was so bad it would never pass the Commons and demand a snap election.

The Labour Leader wants a new election that could install him in No 10 so he can reopen the negotiations with Brussels on his own version of Brexit.

Mr Corbyn said the deal was a 'huge and damaging failure' that would leave the country in a 'half way house'.  

Without Labour votes and with Brexiteers on her own side furious and quitting the Government, Mrs May's deal looks dead on arrival.

Labour sources have insisted to MailOnline the party is ready to fight an election 'tomorrow'.


Mr Corbyn told MPs: 'The Government is in chaos. Their deal risks leaving the country in an indefinite halfway house without a real say.

'When even the last Brexit Secretary, who theoretically at least negotiated the deal, says ''I cannot support the proposed deal'', what faith does that give anyone else in this place or in this country?

'The Government simply cannot put to Parliament this half-baked deal that both the Brexit Secretary and his predecessor have rejected.

'No deal is not a real option and the Government has not seriously prepared for it.' 

He said last night the deal failed to deal properly with the Irish border and did not provide the permanent UK-EU customs union Labour say is essential for the economy. 

In response to Mr Raab's resignation, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: 'This is now an incredibly serious situation. The Prime Minister's Brexit deal has fallen at the first hurdle.

'When Theresa May makes her statement to Parliament this morning she can't stand up and say 'nothing has changed'. She needs to urgently to rethink her approach.' 





MailOnline