Mark Francois ripped into Jeremy Corbyn during today’s Brexit deal debate, pointing out that the electorate had overwhelmingly rejected his policies. Labour suffered its worst election performance since 1935, handing Boris Johnson a whopping 80-seat majority. Mr Francois, who is a leading Tory Brexiteer, said that Mr Corbyn’s plan for the UK had been “slaughtered” at the ballot box.

The deputy leader of the ERG savaged the Labour leader’s election defeat, asking “what bit of that message does he not understand”.

The Tory Brexiteer’s intervention in the Commons came as the Labour leader had been suggesting that Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal threatened British worker’s rights.

Mr Francois told the Commons: “All of us in this Parliament care about worker’s rights and the rights of those approaching retirement. 

“He put his policy to the British people, in as much as anyone could discern it, in a general election.

“He was slaughtered. What bit of that message does he not understand?”

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Mr Corbyn responded: “The Prime Minister, your leader said worker’s rights were going to be protected. They are not in this bill.”

Boris Johnson had earlier opened the debate by saying he was “absolutely determined this great project will not be of one government or party, but of the British nation as a whole”.

The Prime Minister added: “We should be fortified by a renewed sense of confidence that, while our democratic institutions have been tested as never before, if this House comes together now to support this bill.

“History will record that the first act of this new Parliament was to break the ice flows and find a new passage through to oceans of new opportunity.”

Mr Johnson went on to insist the bill “learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament and rejects any further delay”.

He added: “It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done, it will be over.

“The sorry story of the last three years will be at an end and we can move forward.”

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Mr Johnson pledged that the deal also “paves the way” for a “ambitious free trade deal” with the EU.

He said: “The oven is on, it is set at gas mark four, we can have it done at lunchtime and the new deal I negotiated will restore our great institutions.”

In response, Jeremy Corbyn warned that Brexit deal “will not protect or strengthen our rights”, support manufacturing industry, or help “vital trading relationships”.

He accused the Conservatives of using the deal as a “battering ram to drive us down the path of yet more deregulation” and towards a “toxic deal with Donald Trump” that will “sell out the NHS”.

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