Labour will fight to prevent no-deal

JEREMY Corbyn will insist Labour is doing everything necessary to “bring Britain back from the brink” of Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans.

The Labour leader will use a speech in Salford on Monday to claim the prospect of quitting the EU without an agreement next month is adding to the “damage” done by Tory rule.

Mr Corbyn will tell his audience that manufacturing workers have lost out on on £55 a week since 2010.

Speaking ahead of a meeting of the shadow cabinet which will discuss options for preventing a no-deal Brexit, Mr Corbyn will attack the Prime Minister’s plans to suspend Parliament as an “attack on democracy which will be resisted”.

Mr Cobyn is expected to say: “Today the shadow cabinet will be meeting to finalise our plans to stop the disaster of no-deal ahead of the return of Parliament tomorrow.

“We are working with other parties to do everything necessary to pull our country back from the brink.

“Like all progressive change, democracy was won from below, it wasn’t handed down from above.

“So, when a prime minister who hasn’t won an election and who doesn’t have a majority decrees that Parliament will be shut down because he knows his plan for a disastrous no-deal doesn’t have the votes we say that is an attack on democracy which will be resisted,” Mr Corbyn is expected to say.

Mr Corbyn will add that a nodeal scenario is a “Trump deal” one.

He will say: “The people will not allow a phoney populist cabal in Downing Street, in hock to the vested interests of the richest, to deny them their democratic voice.

“A no-deal Brexit is really a Trump deal Brexit, leading to a one-sided US trade deal that will put us at the mercy of Donald Trump and the big American corporations.

“The pally enthusiasm of the US President for Britain’s new prime minister only underlines that in Boris Johnson, Trump has found a compliant British leader who will dance to his tune,” Mr Corbyn is expected to add.

The Labour leader will also say: “The threat of No Deal is adding to the damage already done to industry by nine years of Tory government.

“Manufacturing workers have lost out on £55 a week under the Tories. That’s the Conservative record on manufacturing – fewer people employed and lower wages.”