Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for a general election 50 times this year, according to the Daily Telegraph. But he voted against two motions to hold a snap election on October 15 last week and on Monday. He said he wanted to support the motion once the Benn bill had received royal assent.

Rupert Lowe, MEP for the West Midlands, blasted Mr Corbyn for attempting to get a further delay to Brexit by blocking Mr Johnson’s plans for an election.

He told Express.co.uk: ”Having spent the week speaking to ordinary, hard-working people in my West Midlands constituency one thing is clear – if Corbyn thinks that a further extension will enhance his electoral prospects he is gravely mistaken.

“Trust in our democratic institutions is on a knife-edge and by promoting this paralysis the Labour Party are in danger of tipping it over the edge.”

Mr Lowe added he believes Mr Johnson should not agree to a deal just for the sake of the UK leaving the EU by the deadline.  

He said: “Both Leavers and a majority of Remainers want this to be done and dusted now.

“A no-deal Brexit is the best way to move the country past this division and we can all get on with the rest of our lives.

“Our Remain Parliament will not allow that to happen and are terrified of facing the British public so will continue to frustrate the will of the people.

“It is barefaced political opportunism and they will be punished at the ballot box for it.”

Mr Corbyn also rejected a proposal by his deputy, Tom Watson, which called for Labour to back remain.

While visiting a college in Walsall to encourage students to vote yesterday, he said: “It’s Tom’s view. I don’t accept it, I don’t agree with it.”

“Our priority is to get a general election in order to give the people a chance to elect a government that cares for them, not themselves.”

In a speech on Wednesday, Mr Watson said a single-issue Brexit election may not break the deadlock in Parliament – something only a second referendum could achieve with certainty.

He also argued that, if a referendum were to follow an election, then Labour should commit “unambiguously and unequivocally” to campaign for Remain.

He added that, while a Brexit election might at the moment seem “inevitable”, such single-issue campaigns were never desirable.

He said: “Boris Johnson has already conceded that the Brexit crisis can only be solved by the British people,” he said.

“But the only way to break the Brexit deadlock once and for all is a public vote in a referendum. A general election could fail to solve Brexit chaos.

He argued that it was not too late for Labour to win back Remain voters put off by confusion over the party’s position on Brexit, if they were to commit clearly to campaign to stay in the EU.

He said: “My experience on the doorstep tells me most of those who’ve deserted us over our Brexit policy did so with deep regret and would greatly prefer to come back; they just want us to take an unequivocal position that, whatever happens, we’ll fight to remain, and to sound like we mean it.

“If we did it, we could win, whereas if we don’t, I fear we won’t.”

”Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said Mr Watson’s comments showed Labour was determined to cancel the 2016 referendum result.

He said: “This latest trick would mean delaying Brexit again for up to a year, handing over £250 million a week to Brussels for no purpose.

“Labour are running scared of an election and only offer more dither and pointless delay.”

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