What type of general election does Jeremy Corbyn want to fight?

The current obsession with Boris Johnson’s decision to marginally reduce Parliament’s sittings days has had the side effect of taking the spotlight off the tricky strategic decisions Jeremy Corbyn faces over the next two months.

Up until now, Corbyn has been content to continue attacking the prospect of no deal largely on the basis of the threat to workers’ jobs. The sight of him lining up on the same side as the big business forces of Remain is somewhat incongruous, whilst his description of no deal as a ‘bankers’ Brexit’ looks odd given how much funding Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the other international banks gave to the Remain campaign during the referendum.

Although it is reasonable to doubt the sincerity of the long-standing Eurosceptic’s opposition to no deal, Corbyn’s stance is perhaps easier to understand in the context of his equally long-standing anti-Americanism – combined with the generally-held view that no deal will inevitably be followed by closer ties to the US.