The unholy alliance
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has told Jeremy Corbyn her party will support Labour if it initiates a no confidence vote in Theresa May’s government.
However, that support is predicated on a second EU membership referendum to “stop Brexit.”
It seems unlikely lifelong Eurosceptic Corbyn will accept a pact on those terms.
Sturgeon said: “If Labour lodges a motion of no confidence in this incompetent government tomorrow the SNP support and we can work together to give people the chance to stop Brexit in another vote. This shambles can’t go on – so how about it?”
Earlier in the day, the first minister accused the government of “pathetic cowardice” for cancelling a meaningful vote in parliament on the draft Brexit agreement.
So it is confirmed – pathetic cowardice it is from PM. Yet again the interests of the Tory party are a higher priority for her than anything else. This can’t go on. https://t.co/P6dzhZEH7d
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) December 10, 2018
Responding to the news Jeremy Corbyn said: “The government has decided Theresa May’s Brexit deal is so disastrous that it has taken the desperate step of delaying its own vote at the eleventh hour.
“We have known for at least two weeks that Theresa May’s worst of all worlds deal was going to be rejected by parliament because it is damaging for Britain. Instead, she ploughed ahead when she should have gone back to Brussels to renegotiate or called an election so the public could elect a new government that could do so.
“We don’t have a functioning government. While Theresa May continues to botch Brexit, our public services are at breaking point and our communities suffer from dire under-investment.
“Labour’s alternative plan for a jobs first deal must take centre stage in any future talks with Brussels.”
