What does Jeremy Corbyn really think about Brexit?

Brexit has become a divisive issue for the Labour leader and his party. Heather Stewart charts Corbyn’s changing relationship with the EU. Plus: Lois Beckett looks at the March for our Lives movement, a year after the Parkland shootings

In 1975, Jeremy Corbyn, then a local Labour councillor, voted no in the European Communities membership referendum. In the 2016 referendum, he came out in favour of remaining in the EU, but was criticised by some for what was seen as a lacklustre campaign.

Now Brexit is threatening to split his party, and many of his MPs and party members feel frustrated by his lack of clarity over the party’s position on Europe. The Guardian’s political editor, Heather Stewart, talks to Anushka Asthana about Corbyn’s changing relationship with the EU, while Steve Howell, a former Corbyn adviser and author of Game Changer: Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics, discusses how Corbyn arrived at his remain and reform position. Plus Alena Ivanova, a Momentum activist, argues that Corbyn’s only option is to listen to party members who want a second referendum.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2E7ZDio