Harry Potter author JK Rowling has led criticism of Jeremy Corbyn after the Labour leader re-committed his party to going ahead with Brexit if he became prime minister.
In a newspaper interview, Mr Corbyn stressed that even if Labour won a snap general election in 2019 he would seek to "go back and negotiate" a Brexit deal with the EU in time for the UK to still leave the bloc on 29 March next year.
He also failed to commit Labour to backing Remain if there were a second EU referendum.
Mr Corbyn's refusal to budge from his party's manifesto commitment to respect the result of the 2016 Brexit vote has prompted anger from among both his party's MPs and high-profile supporters.
Rowling mocked Mr Corbyn's position - and his supporters - in a biblical-style series of Twitter posts she titled "The Visitation of The Corbynites".
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