In his own words, Corbyn’s history of euroscepticism

JANUARY 1993: ‘The European Central Bank will undermine any social objective that any Government would wish to carry out.’

MARCH 1993: ‘What powers do we have to do anything about the fraud in EC institutions on... the Common Agricultural Policy...? People... pay taxes and much of that money seems to find its way into the hands of the Mafia or into grandiose, unwanted and often badly-built construction projects...’

MAY 1993: ‘The Maastricht treaty takes away from national parliaments the power to set economic policy and hands it over to an unelected set of bankers who will impose the economic policies of price stability, deflation and high unemployment...’

MAY 2005: ‘It is morally wrong that the US ... and the EU Commission pay farmers to overproduce. They then use taxpayers’ money to buy the overproduction ...it is then shipped at enormous public cost across the seas to be dumped as maize on African societies. It’s simply crazy...’

2008: ‘The project has always been to create a huge freemarket Europe, with ever-limiting powers for national parliaments and an increasingly powerful common foreign and security policy.’

JUNE 2015: ‘There is a real risk that Greece leaves both the eurozone and the EU. Its future would be uncertain, but at least it could be its own.’ JUNE 24, 2016, DAY OF THE BREXIT RESULT: ‘The British people have made their decision. We must respect that result and Article 50 has to be invoked now so that we negotiate an exit from the European Union. Obviously there has to be a strategy but the whole point of the referendum was that the public would be asked their opinion. They’ve given their opinion. It is up for Parliament to now act on that opinion.’