PM launched ferocious assault on Labour leader saying last night’s TV grilling proved he was ‘not prepared’ to lead the country
CLUELESS Jeremy Corbyn would be alone and naked negotiating Brexit if he wins the keys to No10, Theresa May warned yesterday.
In her most personal attack on the Labour leader yet, the Prime Minister said her rival was “simply not ready to govern and not prepared to lead”.
She said Mr Corbyn would accept an EU divorce deal on “any terms”, which meant he “will find himself alone and naked in the negotiating chamber of the European Union”.
She added: “Now I know that’s an image that doesn’t bear thinking about but actually this is very serious.”
The scathing jibe was a nod to Labour hero Nye Bevan, who pleaded with party members in 1957 that giving up our nuclear weapons would leave the country naked on the world stage.
Mrs May was attempting to wrestle the election campaign back on to her Brexit message at a Tory rally in Wolverhampton.
Her comments came after Labour accused her of negotiating our EU divorce like “an ogre”.
She accused the Labour leader of having no plan for the EU exit.
She said: “With Brexit negotiations due to begin only 11 days after polling day, he is not prepared.”
“But I am prepared, prepared to take the difficult decisions that leadership demands.
“Prepared to do what is necessary to protect and defend our country.”
She warned Labour would “accept any deal, however bad, signing up to any bill, however vast”.
Last night former Chancellor George Osborne launched another stinging attack on the “shrill” PM in the London Evening Standard he now edits.
He accused his old leadership rival of running a “personality cult” and branded her “disastrous” manifesto a “self-inflicted wound”.
