Tuesday 29 October 2019 10:58 am | Updated: Tuesday 29 October 2019 11:08 am

Labour will back Number 10’s early general election bid

HARTLEPOOL, ENGLAND – JUNE 27: Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn meets military personnel at the Heugh Battery Museum on Hartlepool Headland as he announces a package of measures that the Labour Party would introduce to support armed forces personnel and veterans on June 27, 2019 in Hartlepool, England. The visit came ahead of Armed Forces Day and Mr Corbyn announced Labour’s five pledges that aim to support armed forces and their families. The five pledges are; Fair Pay. Decent housing for forces and their families. A voice for servicemen and women. Bring an end to privatisation. Support for forces children. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Labour has said it will back Boris Johnson’s call for a pre-Christmas general election.

Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will press his MPs to support the Prime Minister’s bill today that calls for a simple majority to back a snap election on 12 December.

“I have consistently said that we are ready for an election and our support is subject to a no-deal Brexit being off the table,” Corbyn said.

“We have now heard from the EU that the extension of Article 50 to 31st January has been confirmed, so for the next three months, our condition of taking No Deal off the table has now been met.

“We will now launch the most ambitious and radical campaign for real change our country has ever seen.”

More to follow.