The Labour leader has called for Brexit to be delayed if it means that the UK will get “a better deal”.
Jeremy Corbyn then went on to criticize Theresa May’s progress in the Brexit negotiations saying the Prime Minister had only “scraped through”.
“Has this experience given the Prime Minister reason to consider dropping the unnecessary exit date deadline of the 29 March 2019 from the EU Withdrawal Bill,” said Corbyn on Monday.
“I’m sure the whole House, and probably the whole country, would rather get the best possible deal a little bit later if that meant a better deal for peoples’ jobs and the economy.”
A vote next week by MPs will decide on whether to challenge the UK’s exit date from the EU.
May told MPs in the House of Parliament that the date and time of Brexit should not be negotiable.
“We’re leaving the European Union on that date. That is what the British people voted for and that is what this Government is going to put in place,” she said.
Conservative MP Philip Davies raised the exit fee, questioning the Prime Minister on its amount – which currently stands at £35 billion to £39 billion.
The Prime Minister responded: “This offer is on the table in the context of us agreeing the partnership for the future, agreeing the next stage and agreeing the partnership for the future. If we don’t agree that partnership, then this offer is off the table,”
When speaking about the Labour party, May repeatedly poked at Corbyn and criticized his party for not have a clear position for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
“I set out our objectives for the Brexit negotiations very clearly in my Lancaster House speech, and I set them out further and in some more detail in the speech, I gave in Florence. Meanwhile, the Labour party has had 12 different Brexit plans. In fact, the right hon gentleman has had so many Brexit plans he cannot even reach alignment with himself,” she said.