It's no wonder young people are falling out of love with Corbyn

One of the ironies of contemporary British politics is that many younger voters – some of whom are so opposed to eurosceptic baby boomers that they accuse them of ‘stealing their future’ – are also enamoured with Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour leader is, after all, a eurosceptic baby boomer who some still speculate might have secretly voted Leave at the referendum.

But a poll out today suggests that the Corbyn coalition is finally beginning to creak under the weight of this contradiction. According to an Opinium survey, commissioned by For our Future’s Sake (FFS), the student wing of the People’s Vote campaign, just 23 per cent of 18- to 34-year-olds approve of Corbyn’s handling of Brexit; 37 per cent are opposed. This follows a YouGov poll in December – also commissioned by the People’s Vote campaign – which suggested that young Labour supporters would desert the party if Corbyn went into the next election pledging to implement some version of Brexit: support for Labour among 18- to 24-year-olds, the figures suggest, would fall from 60 per cent to 33 per cent, with the unambiguously anti-Brexit Lib Dems being the main beneficiaries.