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Jeremy Corbyn<br />

‘You’re not Henry VIII,’ Jeremy Corbyn tells<br />

<strong>The</strong>resa May<br />

Labour leader accuses prime minister of behaving like an overbearing Tudor by refusing to commit to<br />

Commons vote on Brexit deal<br />

Jeremy Corbyn says PM ‘cannot hide behind Henry VIII and the divine rights … of kings’ on Brexit<br />

deal. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA<br />

Anushka Asthana and Rowena Mason<br />

Wednesday 28 December <strong>2016</strong> 22.00 GMT Last modified on Thursday <strong>29</strong> December <strong>2016</strong><br />

01.05 GMT<br />

Jeremy Corbyn has accused <strong>The</strong>resa May of behaving like Henry VIII or a similar autocratic monarch<br />

because of her refusal to commit to putting a final Brexit deal to a vote in parliament.<br />

In an interview with the <strong>Guardian</strong>, the Labour leader insisted that the prime minister could not be<br />

allowed to use the royal prerogative to bypass the Commons over the UK’s future relationship with<br />

continental Europe.<br />

Earlier this month, May repeatedly refused to commit to a parliamentary vote during a select<br />

committee hearing – prompting Corbyn to conjure up an image of the prime minister acting as if she<br />

was an overbearing Tudor.

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