Nick Clegg says people should put pressure on Labour to stop Britain’s exit from the European Union

Nick Clegg has called on people to join Labour or the Conservatives. The former Liberal Democrat leader said that Brexit meant the country was “in a state of emergency” and what happened within “the two larger establishment parties” was “of the greatest importance”.

He said that people should “take the plunge” and join the Labour Party in order to put pressure on Jeremy Corbyn and his MPs to use parliament to stop Britain’s exit from the European Union. If people could not stomach joining Labour, Mr Clegg said that they should join the Conservatives in order to put pressure on its MPs.

Mr Clegg, who served as deputy prime minister in the coalition government from 2010 to 2015, makes the argument in his forthcoming book