Brenda from Bristol, look away now. Jeremy Corbyn is pressing Theresa May to call a general election, saying:
‘To break the deadlock, an election is not only the most practical option, it is also the most democratic option. It would give the winning party a renewed mandate to negotiate a better deal for Britain and secure support for it in Parliament and across the country.’
The EU has already made clear there will be no changes to the terms and Corbyn’s election call is really a holding tactic. However, he has, inadvertently, stumbled on an inescapable truth: this Parliament is no longer capable of delivering Brexit or even of thwarting it. It is not the democratic system that has broken down but the parliamentary one. Quite simply, MPs do not wish to do something the voters have twice instructed them to do. In the 2016 referendum, the voters said they wished the UK to leave the EU.
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