Corbyn calls for early recall of Parliament over Brexit
British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn on Monday said he supported recalling Parliament to deal with the Brexit crisis.
The Labour Party leader, however, did not answer a question about whether he would step down as leader, said.
At a Labour Party event in Northamptonshire, Corbyn added his party “will do everything to stop a no-deal Brexit,” but when asked if he would consider stepping aside to do so he replied: “There seems to be an awful lot of very imaginative what-iffery in the press at the present time.”
“I am the leader of the opposition, the leader of the Labour Party. All the constitutional precedents are when a government collapses, it’s the leader of the opposition that takes over,” he added.
Corbyn said Parliament was facing a “political and constitutional storm” when it returned in September, provoked by the Conservative Party’s “lurch to the hard right”.
He urged lawmakers that were “serious” about blocking a no-deal Brexit to vote to bring down the government in a no-confidence vote, saying Labour would form a time-limited government to avoid leaving the EU without a deal.
