TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019Brexit? Nah, the opposition
leader has bigger fish to fry
Jeremy Corbyn spoke of ‘deeper problems’ than Brexit in Corby yesterday (PA)
TOM PECK
No article on Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit can begin in earnest without referring back to April 2016, when he
launched his party’s referendum campaign by telling his audience they were inside a building that had once
been used as the Ministry of Truth for a film version of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. He let out a
half chuckle, cocked his head to one side, and with some jovial self-disdain said the words, “We shall see.”
It was an almost – almost – admirable way of acknowledging that he, an on the record Eurosceptic of three
decades standing, now had no choice but to reluctantly lead his party’s Remain campaign; he knew and you
knew that nothing he was about to say would be true, but it would all be over soon and then we could all just