British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will voice his party’s readiness to govern and to take over the job of negotiating Brexit.
According to Corbyn’s office, he plans to say the party is “on the threshold of power” in a speech he is slated to give to the party’s annual conference on Wednesday.
Despite reducing Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives to a minority administration in June’s snap election, the party remains divided over Europe.
Some of the members seek to keep Britain inside the bloc’s single market, while Corbyn is cool to the notion.
He will accuse government ministers of “bungling” Brexit negotiations and call on May’s government to “pull yourself together or make way” for others to be able to negotiate the UK’s exit from of the bloc.
One of the Labour leader’s closest shadow cabinet allies, Angela Rayner, told Sky News that Corbyn has proved he is “prime minister material” and that he would be able to “run Britain…