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Corbyn Plan to Become U.K.’s Caretaker Prime Minister Falls Flat

  • Liberal Democrat leader Swinson calls Corbyn ‘divisive’
  • Even Labour MPs appear to acknowledge he wouldn’t get support
Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn

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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s appeal to other U.K. parties that he should become a caretaker prime minister to stop a no-deal Brexit looks to have already fallen flat, as even some in his own party apparently accepted an alternative plan was needed.

Corbyn on Wednesday evening wrote to rival party leaders, as well as selected Conservative members of Parliament, and suggested they should support him to oust Boris Johnson so he could seek a delay to Britain’s departure from the European Union and call a general election.