PM’s chicken jibe after Corbyn warns that he has ‘no authority’

Boris Johnson labelled Jeremy Corbyn a “chlorinated chicken” over Brexit before swearing in the Commons, amid Labour warnings he has “no authority and no majority”.

The prime minister deployed jokes in a bid to fight back against Labour leader Mr Corbyn, who repeatedly demanded the government should publish official documents which show the impact of a no-deal Brexit on food and medicine supplies.

Mr Johnson highlighted a shadow minister’s suggestion that Labour’s spending policies were a “s***-or-bust strategy”, adding: “I say it’s both, Mr Speaker.”

His remarks came after Mr Corbyn asked for evidence of details that the PM is negotiating for a deal and not trying to “run down the clock”.

The Opposition leader also warned people have a “great deal to fear” if Mr

“Yesterday, it was revealed the PM’s negotiating strategy is to run down the clock. JEREMY CORBYN

Johnson does to the country what he has done to the Conservative Party in the last 24 hours.

This has included the PM withdrawing the whip from 21 of his MPs who rebelled by backing a bid to stop a no-deal Brexit on October 31.

Speaking in the Commons, Mr Corbyn said: “Yesterday it was revealed that the prime minister’s negotiating strategy is to run down the clock.

“And that the attorney general told the prime minister that his belief that the European Union would drop the backstop was a complete fantasy.

“Are these reports accurate or can the prime minister provide the detail of the proposals he’s put forward to the EU?”

Responding, Mr Johnson said his strategy was to get a deal by the summit on October 17 and “to get Brexit done”.