Brexit is a no-win game for Corbyn

HER enemies have tried to imply that it has been another bad week for Theresa May.

True, she has suffered a series of defeats in the Lords, her Cabinet is split over Brexit and Boris Johnson has called her preferred future customs arrangement ‘crazy’. However, don’t be fooled. Jeremy Corbyn’s problems are much weightier.

Not only is he sinking steadily in the opinion polls (now five points behind the Tories) but Labour is irrevocably divided over Brexit. Corbyn will have to make the most important decision of his leadership in a few weeks’ time when the Commons votes on whether the UK should remain in the EU single market.

Whatever he decides, he will anger either the majority of Labour MPs and peers (who wish Britain stays in the EU) or those millions of traditional Labour supporters in the North who voted for Britain to leave.

For Corbyn, it is a case of lose-lose.