Sunday Mail (UK)

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Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of siding with Theresa May after he insisted Brexit would go ahead if Labour won a snap general election.

In an interview published yesterday, the opposition leader criticised EU state aid rules and said he wouldn’t recommend another referendum.

The SNP’s Westminste­r leader Ian Blackford reacted furiously, calling the Labour leader “the midwife to the delivery of the Tories’ Brexit plans”.

Blackford added: “Jeremy Corbyn has finally come off the fence he’s been sat on for the past two years.

“But, unfathomab­ly, he’s come down on the same side as Theresa May.

“The Labour Party are incapable of providing opposition to the worst UK Government that most people can remember.”

Lib Dem leader Vince Cable criticised Corbyn for refusing “once again to take the blinkers off”.

He said: “He is ignoring the concerns of his own supporters and the economic damage experts warn Brexit will do to the UK economy. On Brexit, you simply cannot put a cigarette paper between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.”

Labour’s former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said his party leader’s remarks were “deeply depressing and disappoint­ing”.

Writing on Facebook, the MP added: “Brexit is essentiall­y a project of the hard right of British politics, who want to turn Britain into a lightly regulated, offshore tax haven for the super rich, devoid of proper protection­s for workers, and one which seeks to dump the blame for the UK’s problems on immigrants.”

Labour passed a motion at their party conference in September that they would seek a general election but left the option of supporting a second EU referendum on the table.

A poll on the eve of that conference found 86 per cent of Labour members backed a People’s Vote.

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