The day of a party’s election campaign launch ought to generate some pretty straightforward policy coverage. Instead, Labour yesterday managed to cause confusion once again as Jeremy Corbyn tried to set out Labour’s position on Europe. In a speech in Manchester, the Labour leader asserted that the question of whether the UK would leave the EU had been ‘settled’ – before going on to argue that the task ahead was to stop the wealthy elites, who are trying to ‘hijack’ Brexit.
Given that Labour have been accused of sitting on the fence over Brexit, this appeared to clear up their position (even if he did leave out any specifics of what a Brexit under Labour would look like). But just hours later, Corbyn appeared to perform a reverse ferret in an interview with the BBC. Quizzed repeatedly on whether the UK will definitely leave the EU if he becomes prime minister, Corbyn refused to answer seven times.
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