The vote-leave co-founder has slammed the Labour leaders’ stance on the UK’s exit and insists it is an “an act of chicanery” to swoop into Number 10. Mr Hannan also condemned Mr Corbyn for going against the Labour Party’s 2017 election manifesto to honour the result of the EU referendum. The Tory MEP for the South East England wrote in the Daily Mail: “Corbyn wants to seize power through an act of chicanery, bringing down the Conservatives for implementing the promise on which Labour was elected two years ago, namely to implement the referendum result.”
The Labour Party has been a constant thorn in Britain’s exit from the bloc and Mr Hannan said if Mr Corbyn was so against leaving without an agreement with Brussels, then he should have voted for the withdrawal agreement.
In a scathing assessment, Mr Hannan said: “If Corbyn thinks No Deal is so terrible, why did he vote to trigger Article 50, committing Britain to leave by a given date, with or without an agreement? Why, come to that, did he vote down Theresa May’s agreement three times?
“If a Corbyn-led Government were to rule out No Deal, the EU would have no incentive to negotiate.
“If you are not prepared to walk away from talks, you invite the other party to exploit you.
“Corbyn knows all this, but it doesn’t bother him. His sole motive is to get into No 10.
“If that means performing daily somersaults and attacking the Government from contradictory directions, so be it.”
Mr Corbyn had called on Remainer’s across the House of Commons including Tory rebels, to support a vote of no confidence in Mr Johnson and prevent the UK from leaving the EU without a deal.
The proposal aimed to install Mr Corbyn into Number 10 to form a “strictly time-limited temporary Government”.
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However Mr Hannan believes even if the Labour leader does somehow end up in Downing Street, he would have already “swung the wrecking ball” and have his hands tied by Brussels.
The Tory MEP said: “The trouble is that he is weakening Britain’s position vis-a-vis the EU. As long as Labour promises to block Brexit, why should the EU engage?
“If Corbyn did make it to power, he would inherit a ruined negotiating position having himself swung the wrecking ball.”
Britain remains on course to leave the EU in 72 days with or without a deal.
On Monday, Mr Johnson wrote to European Council president Donald Tusk and said that the backstop – the contingency plan to avoid a hard border with Ireland – should be removed from the divorce deal ahead of the October 31 Brexit deadline.
But Mr Tusk defended the measure and warned that scrapping it risked a return to a hard border on the island of Ireland.
Mr Tusk said: “The backstop is an insurance to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland unless and until an alternative is found.
“Those against the backstop and not proposing realistic alternatives in fact support re-establishing a border. Even if they do not admit it.”
Responding, Mr Johnson said: “We think there is a big opportunity now for everybody to come together, take out that backstop.”
