Pedro Sánchez to talk Catalunya and Brexit with Brown and Corbyn

The PSOE boss, Spanish president Mariano Rajoy's direct rival, will give a conference at the London School of Economics (LSE).

He has also scheduled meetings with former British prime minister Gordon Brown and current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, as their party is the closest UK equivalent to the PSOE.

The decision to talk to Gordon Brown is because of the Scots-born MP's high-profile campaigning against the IndyRef and support of the 'Better Together' project, which eventually led to a narrow majority voting for Scotland to remain in the United Kingdom.

Sánchez will also give a conference at Oxford University's Magdalen College on what will be bank holiday Monday in the country, before the LSE talk the next day, which is presented by British expert in Spanish history, Paul Preston.

The socialist leader will discuss the political, economic and social causes that have fuelled the Catalunya secession movement and explain the PSOE's proposals for 'resolving the conflict', based upon dialogue and reforming the Spanish Constitution, which – apart from a couple of tweaks – has not been reviewed since it was rubber-stamped in December 1978.

Sánchez's meeting with Jeremy Corbyn will be on Tuesday, where the socialist will chat to his British counterpart about Catalunya, and relationships between the UK and both the European Union and Spain post-Brexit, especially concerning the situation for Spaniards living in Britain and the border issue with Gibraltar.

Pedro Sánchez has already carried out a similar tour in Germany, speaking in Congress during an SPD meeting.

Both parties spoke in English, which Sánchez is proficient in, and agreed the Catalunya secession movement was 'not just a threat to Spain', but also for 'the entire European Union project'.