Jeremy Corbyn says the Government must not walk away without a deal (Picture: EPA)

Jeremy Corbyn has gone to Brussels to talk Brexit with senior EU figures.

The Labour leader, who visited the Belgian capital at the same time as Theresa May, was set to meet with Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator.

Accusing the prime minister of upsetting ‘just about everybody’, Mr Corbyn again warned of the dangers of walking away from talks without a deal.

He urged the Government to get negotiations back on track.

He told Sky News: ‘The prime minister seems to have managed to upset just about everybody and have a warring Cabinet around her.

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‘It is up to her to get the negotiations back on track. We cannot countenance the idea that we just rush headlong into no deal with Europe. No deal with Europe would be very dangerous for employment and jobs in Britain.

‘The idea of no deal would mean that World Trade Organisation rules would be implemented straight away in March 2019.

‘It would be catastrophic for manufacturing industry jobs and we would have real problems all through the economy. I don’t want to see that. I want to see an agreement being reached.

‘We have to realise the seriousness of the situation and the chaos in which our Government is operating at the present time. It is a chaos of their own making.’

While Mrs May was in Brussels for the EU summit, Mr Corbyn met with Mr Barnier and gave a talk to European socialists, in which he spoke about plans to counter the rise of the far right.

He said: ‘From Donald Trump in the United States, Marine Le Pen in France and Ukip in Britain, to the worrying rise of the far right elsewhere in Europe, including most recently in Austria, our broken system has provided fertile ground for the growth of nationalist and xenophobic politics.

‘Unless we offer hope for a more equitable and prosperous future, we will effectively be clearing the path for the extreme right to make even more far-reaching inroads into our communities, and their message of fear and division to become the political mainstream in our political discourse.’