Unfortunately for the Labour leader, the current appetite for upending the British status quo has little to do with socialism
It is easy to locate common ground between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit. The terrain has been mapped. The prime minister and the Labour leader both claim to want to take the UK out of the EU, and there is a document describing in great detail how it would be done. It is not a secret text. You can download it from the government website. It is the withdrawal agreement that May negotiated last year. No other legal method for enacting Brexit exists, nor is any alternative blueprint going to be drafted. If Corbyn were to win a general election pledging a softer, rosier Brexit, the subsequent talks in Brussels would begin with him accepting conditions agreed by his predecessor.
There is still the long-term character of the UK’s relationship with its neighbours to be settled, which is why Labour MPs who support Brexit voted to stop it happening under a Tory prime minister. They can’t trust the Conservative party to make good choices about Britain’s future inside or outside the EU. But that reservation sows dishonesty into the cross-party talks that resumed in Downing Street yesterday. There is nothing left to discuss on the withdrawal agreement. The options are May’s version or nothing. And anything more ambitious involves Labour and Tory frontbenches joining forces to legislate on the broad outline of a European strategy. It means May and Corbyn whipping their MPs into the same voting lobby, defending the same positions, defending each other. That isn’t going to happen.
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