Corbyn soccer stunt as he meets EU’s Mr Brexit

JEREMY Corbyn held talks with the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator yesterday – even presenting him with a football shirt.

In his bid to present himself as prime minister in waiting, the Labour leader met with Michel Barnier at the Euro- pean Commission’s headquarters in Brussels.

With Diane Abbott and Sir Keir Starmer watching on, Mr Corbyn gave the sports-mad EU official a shirt from his favourite team Arsenal FC with Mr Barnier’s name on

the back and a signed copy of Labour’s manifesto.

Mr Corbyn said: ‘Now he’s got two things in red – a shirt and a book.’

He said that the Labour Party respected the result of last year’s referendum but was seeking a Brexit to protect jobs.

And Mr Corbyn also confirmed his offer of citizens’ rights for EU nationals living in the UK after Brexit and said Labour was ready to pay ‘what we are legally required’ to as part of the withdrawal process.

The Labour leader said he had told Mr Barnier that his party would ‘make sure Britain doesn’t become some sort of low-tax regime off the shore of Europe’.