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Corbyn: ‘Boris Johnson's new Brexit deal is even worse than Theresa May's’
Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay (left), Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, and Michel Barnier, the EU's Chief Brexit Negotiator (right), ahead of the opening sessions of the European Council summit at EU headquarters in Brussels

JEREMY CORBYN dismissed Boris Johnson’s new EU withdrawal agreement today as “even worse” than his predecessor Theresa May’s thrice-rejected deal.

The Labour leader described the last-minute agreement between the British government and the EU as a “sell-out.”

Following days of talks, the Prime Minister announced that a withdrawal agreement had been finalised with Brussels as he headed to a two-day summit of EU leaders.

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