Labour will seek to exploit government division on Brexit today in the final round of House of Commons votes on the Queen's Speech.
Jeremy Corbyn will call for MPs to back a "jobs first" Brexit that delivers the "exact same benefits" as the single market and customs union.
He will hope his amendment to the Government's legislative programme can exploit apparent Tory divisions on whether to prioritise the economy or immigration in the Brexit negotiations.
Labour's wide-ranging amendment also reproduces many of the policies in its manifesto and Mr Corbyn urged MPs of all sides to support it, claiming Mrs May had no mandate for continued austerity.
Mr Corbyn said: "I'm hoping that some Conservatives would recognise that the writing is on the wall for the economics of austerity and the economics of greater inequality.
"I would also hope that the other opposition parties would recognise that what we're saying actually makes good, sound common sense.
"If you want a future that works for all you've got to invest in it. You can't cut your way to prosperity: you invest your way to prosperity."
The Tory minority government has to get through the final vote on its legislative programme on Thursday afternoon.
On Wednesday evening, it defeated a Labour amendment calling for an end to the public sector pay cap by 323 votes to 309, a majority of 14.
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