Jeremy Corbyn says Brexit would go ahead even if Labour won snap election The Labour leader said he would also advocate Brexit if there was a second referendum on the issue

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he would negotiate with Brussels and carry on with Brexit if his party won a snap general election next year.

In an interview with The Guardian, Mr Corbyn said that if Theresa May were to trigger a vote and lose to Labour, he would “go back and negotiate and see what the timetable would be”.



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Corbyn also

Mrsaid he would advocate Brexit if there was a second referendum on the issue.

When asked what his party’s position would be in the event of a fresh popular vote, he said: “It would be a matter for the party to decide what the policy would be; but my proposal at this moment is that we go forward, trying to get a customs union with the EU, in which we would be able to be proper trading partners,” he said.

He also attacked the bloc over its rules on state aid and competition, saying: “I think the state aid rules do need to be looked at again, because quite clearly, if you want to regenerate an economy, as we would want to do in government, then I don’t want to be told by somebody else that we can’t use state aid in order to be able to develop industry in this country.”

He also revealed his party would repeal the 1824 Vagrancy Act that is reportedly being used by authorities to target beggars and rough sleepers.

‘I was extremely angry’

Remarking on Wednesday’s controversial events during Prime Minister’s Questions, the Labour leader admitted he had lost his temper in the House of Commons when he was accused of calling Prime Minister Theresa May a “stupid woman”.

He told the newspaper he was “extremely angry” as the last point he had made during the debate was that Mrs May’s government had suddenly found £4bn for prepare for a no deal Brexit.

He added: “£4bn. At the same time, police officers have lost their jobs; 100,000 vacancies in the NHS, a housing crisis; a homeless man dies on the steps of Westminster; and she and the Conservative party turned the whole thing into some pantomime joke.”

‘Stupid people’

Mr Corbyn denies calling the Prime Minster a “stupid woman”, and claims he said the words “stupid people” instead. He told the House of Commons last week he is “completely opposed to the use of sexist or misogynist language in absolutely any form at all”.

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott last week lambasted MPs for staging what she called a “mini-riot” in the House of Commons last week over the comments.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I know its end of term, but it was still very wrong. They staged a mini-riot because of what they alleged the leader of the opposition said under his breath.”

Additional reporting from Press Association