Corbyn ‘will wait until the moment is right to launch motion of no confidence’

JEREMY CORBYN has insisted he will wait until the “appropriate time” to table a motion of no confidence in Theresa May’s Government.

The Labour leader told MPs yesterday that Mrs May must admit her Brexit deal is “dead” and criticised her “shambolic” Brexit negotiations, before adding: “She no longer has the authority to negotiate for this country when she doesn’t even have the authority of her own party.”

He also accused the Prime Minister of having “wasted” almost £100,000 of taxpayers’ cash in a week by trying to promote her “dog’s dinner of a Brexit deal” via Facebook advertisements.

SNP Commons leader Pete Wishart intervened to challenge Mr Corbyn over his plans to try to remove Mrs May from power.

He said: “This Government is an absolute shambles, they have failed the country, they are in contempt of Parliament – will he not do the right thing now and table a motion of no confidence in this Government so we can be shot of them?”

Mr Corbyn said he had tabled the emergency debate motion on the Brexit vote process, adding: “We have no confidence in this Government. We need to do the appropriate thing at the appropriate time to have a motion of no confidence in order to get rid of this Government.”

The exchanges came at the beginning of an emergency debate on Mrs May’s decision to avoid defeat in the Commons by delaying the Brexit deal vote. Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington, Mrs May’s deputy, was at one stage heckled by his own side after defending the Government’s actions and reiterating that the “remaining stages of this debate have not been cancelled but have been deferred”.