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U.K.’s Corbyn Plans Caretaker Government to Block No-Deal Brexit

  • Labour leader asks Tory rebels to back him as temporary leader
  • Plan already rejected by Liberal Democrats, Welsh nationalists
Jeremy Corbyn speaks in Parliament in July.
Jeremy Corbyn speaks in Parliament in July.Photographer: Roger Harris/U.K. Parliament
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Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the U.K.’s opposition Labour Party, asked rival parties to support him as prime minister in a coalition to block Boris Johnson’s government from pursuing a no-deal Brexit.

Corbyn wrote to other political parties’ leaders and rebels in the Conservative Party Wednesday, seeking support in a vote of no confidence in the government. He said that if that was successful, they should make him caretaker prime minister so he could delay Brexit and call a general election. Corbyn’s overture was welcomed by the Scottish National Party, but rejected by the Liberal Democrats and the Welsh nationalists of Plaid Cymru.