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The Labour leader tried to drag Whitehall’s top mandarin into political clashes over whether Boris Johnson could stick to the October 31 departure date if he is forced to go to the polls. In

a letter to Sir Mark Sedwill, Mr Corbyn said it would be "unprecedented" and "unconstitutional". Labour intends to force a confidence in vote in the Prime Minister but

he is expected to delay a general election until after Brexit if he loses the vote. Conservative MP Peter Bone said the process was “nothing to do with civil servants” and “Jeremy Corbyn has

got it completely wrong as usual”. The Brexiteer said: “Labour is clutching at straws, they don’t have the support of the people and they are trying to drag the civil service that is

absolutely nothing to do with it.” Parliament has already voted to leave the EU, voting to trigger the Article 50 process and passing legislation setting Britain's withdrawal date for

October 31. Mr Bone added: “The House of Commons voted by an overwhelming majority for the Article 50 process.  “It would be completely wrong if during a general election period you tried to

reverse what Parliament had already decided. “It’s just nonsense.” Mr Bone said he found it “very hard to believe” that MPs would vote down the new Prime Minister to elect a “Marxist who

supports dubious overseas regimes”. And he insisted that if there was a general election “Boris would win it by a mile anyway”. In the letter to Sir Mark, Mr Corbyn asked him to confirm that

if the UK is due to leave the EU without a deal while an election is under way, the Government should seek another time-limited extension to Article 50 to allow the voters to decide. READ

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voters in a general election already under way, would be an unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti-democratic abuse of power by a Prime Minister elected not by the public but by a small

number of unrepresentative Conservative Party members," he wrote. "A Labour government will never support a no- deal exit, so would of course 'want the opportunity to take a

different view'." Mr Corbyn's party lost almost 46,000 members last year, official figures show. It follows bitter divisions over the leadership's approach to Brexit and

its handling of anti-Semitism allegations.