Christmas, boasts Corbyn
ish law to ensure continuity when the UK leaves the bloc will now not go ahead. “The Great Repeal Bill, I suspect, has now become history,” he said.
“I suspect we’ll have something different coming in a couple of weeks’ time.
“We will put forward a position in which we negotiate tariff-free access to the European market and legislate after that.”
In a separate newspaper interview, Mr Corbyn claimed that his party was now united and ready to put the two years’ of civil war over his leadership in the past.
“My phone is full of texts from lots and lots of people from right across the party,” he said.
“I’m very happy about that. I’m very proud to lead this party. ”
But one of Mr Corbyn’s closest trade union allies last night hit out at Labour moderates.
Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pienaar’s Politics show: “Many of the MPs who have been knifing him in the back actually owe their jobs to him this morning.
Charismatic
“And the increase in some of the majorities is startling, not because the local constituency MP is an extraordinary, charismatic and inspirational MP, but because of what was happening – the surge to Labour as a result of Corbyn.”
Mr McCluskey claimed Labour had won over “millions of hearts and minds” at the election.
One of Mr Corbyn’s closest allies risked ridicule yesterday by claiming Labour did not lose the General Election even though the party won fewer Commons seats and fewer votes than the Tories.
Asked on Sky News if she accepted that Labour had lost, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said: “No, I don’t think that we did, I think we did extraordinarily well.”
She added: “We have a surge of support for our manifesto and for our alternative vision of what Britain could be like and we have a much stronger mandate for that than frankly the Tories do.”