MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2019

Corbyn hints he would support

another caretaker PM to stop

no-deal Brexit

But Labour leader remains focused on persuading MPs to back him, aides say (PA)

ROB MERRICK

DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR

Jeremy Corbyn is leaving open the option of supporting an alternative caretaker prime minister, as he vows
to do “everything necessary to stop a disastrous no-deal Brexit”.

In a speech in the midlands today, the Labour leader will not rule out backing a different stopgap, after the
Liberal Democrats and rebel Tories dismissed putting him in No 10 to avert a crash-out on 31 October.

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