What the People’s Vote campaign should do about Jeremy Corbyn

The remain campaign’s political dilemma looks insoluble. Perhaps I am being overly pessimistic – gloom is my default state –  but it is certainly formidable because it requires remainers to simultaneously support and oppose Jeremy Corbyn.

I can make the people who spell it out sound silly. I shouldn’t because some of the brightest and most committed men and women in the People’s Vote campaign are wrestling with the problem of how to break through in a first-past-the-post-system when a neo-Stalinist faction controls the opposition.

Here is their argument. A new Tory prime minister will be with us by July. I will assume the PM is a he and that he has conned Conservatives members, and perhaps himself, into believing that if he shouts a lot, the EU will abandon Ireland, and reopen the withdrawal agreement. It won’t or will make only cosmetic concessions. So what does he do?

He will want to call an election.