Tory grandee Ken Clarke tells Sky News he 'probably would' back Jeremy Corbyn to be caretaker prime minister
has been put forward by the Labour leader as a potential means of avoiding no-deal.
Under this scenario, MPs would oust Boris Johnson in a no-confidence vote and Mr Corbyn would head a time-limited government of national unity.But this plan floundered as the Liberal Democrats and potential rebel Conservative MPs made clear that they could not stomach Mr Corbyn in Downing Street.Opposition parties held a meeting on Tuesday and agreed to pursue"legislative approaches" to stopping a no-deal Brexit.
In layman's terms, this means passing a law to force Mr Johnson to extend Article 50 - the section of an EU treaty that sets the deadline for a country to negotiate its exit from the bloc. But just a day later, the PM moved decisively to curtail their room for manoeuvre by suspending parliament for five weeks over September and October.Rees-Mogg: Remainers 'crying wolf' over suspension of parliament"The key thing, the most difficult thing, is in the very short time we've now got [is] to get a cross party majority to agree what they're in favour of and what they want to do," he said.
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