Today Jeremy Corbyn revealed Labour’s Brexit plan in a bid to secure voters ahead of the general election on December 12. In a speech in Essex, the Labour leader declared he will get Brexit sorted within six months.

What is Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit plan?

Mr Corbyn’s plan is to immediately legislate for a second referendum if he is elected Prime Minister.

Labour said the so-called final say vote would not be a re-run of 2016, saying the choice will be between “a sensible deal or to remain in the European Union”.

His aim is to get a better deal within three months and then put it to the public in a plan he branded “clear and simple”.

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The Labour leader said a deadline to hold the vote next summer was “realistic and doable”.

Labour said its referendum would be a choice between a “credible” Leave option versus Remain.

Under Labour’s Leave option, the party states it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a “close” single market relationship.

This would allow Britain to continue trading with the EU without checks.

However, it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.

If a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has not said which way he would vote, although he has pledged “to carry out whatever the people decide”.

But there is an internal divide within the party over a second referendum.

Labour MPs representing parts of the UK where most people voted Leave have clearly stated they are against putting Brexit back to the public for another vote.

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More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be “toxic to our bedrock Labour voters.

Labour’s Brexit stance was adopted after Labour’s delegates voted for it at the party conference in September.

But the party’s plan has been dismissed as “fairytale politics” by Tories.

The Conservatives said the plan wold result in “paralysing uncertainty”.

However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s commitment to negotiate a new free trade deal with the EU in just over a year is also coming under scrutiny.

When Canada negotiated a similar deal it took seven years for the EU to conclude a free trade deal with the country.

This agreement is what many Brexiteers see as a template for the UK.

Any deal would need to be agreed by all 27 remaining EU states before it could come into force.

Mr Corbyn claimed Boris Johnson’s EU exit deal will “unleash Thatcherism on steroids”.

He will claim: “Given the chance, they’ll slash food standards to match those of the US where ‘acceptable levels’ of rat hairs in paprika and maggots in orange juice are allowed.

“And they will put chlorinated chicken on the supermarket shelves.”

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