Important point by @sundersays, that a government of national unity would struggle to establish any kind of legitimacy with Brexiters - and this putative illegitimacy would be weaponised as a Remainer plot by @BorisJohnson & @Nigel_Farage in any referendum then launched by GNU...
But the real obstacle to any kind of caretaker government, whether minority Labour one or GNU, is LibDems and rebel Tories will not sanction Corbyn becoming PM even on short term licence and he won’t and probably can’t sanction anyone else becoming caretaker (hard for...
Corbyn to explain in subsequent general election why even for a short period he agreed with rebel Tories and LibDems that he was unfit to be PM). So in practice, on or after 21 Oct or so, if as I expect Brexit is postponed, MPs will face a choice between a general election...
or allowing possibly the most powerless government in history, Johnson’s, to limp on indefinitely. Even though most MPs are as attracted to an imminent election as they would be to a plate of steaming sick, that is what I expect them to choose.
