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Corbyn’s Brexit gamble risks alienating core supporters
https://www.ft.com/content/aefc956e-...a-4574d7dabfb6

Labour leader senses opportunity to damage government with shift of position.

Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to shift Labour’s position on Brexit was a carefully calculated move to inflict maximum pain on the government.
After a year of being deliberately vague about his vision of life after Britain leaves the EU, Mr Corbyn broke ground on Monday to support staying in a customs union....

....Mr Corbyn moved after sensing an opportunity to inflict a defeat on Mrs May in the House of Commons on Brexit, where Conservative rebels also back the customs union option.

Mrs May would then have two choices, Mr Corbyn said in an interview with ITV, with the ghost of a smile on his lips: “One is to go back and negotiate something different or the other one is to resign,” he said. “In which case we’ll have a general election.”

...and many of his voters are not at all happy at his u - turn. The dedicated euro - sceptic has left those principles at the door to try to get into the door of No 10. St. Jeremy is losing his halo.