Against the backdrop of the Tories’ historic European elections clusterflop, Labour’s results were merely bad. The natural party of government saw its vote share eroded by the Brexit party so badly that it was forced to endure its worst performance at a national election since 1832. Tory leadership hopefuls, looking to placate the infuriated Conservative grassroots, are already butching up talk of a no-deal Brexit, an outcome that parliament simply will not tolerate.
The Tory party would split if it pursued a soft Brexit deal with Labour votes; it would split if a new leader ran on taking Britain out of the EU to trade on World Trade Organization rules. Brexit represents a fundamental crisis for the governing party. It’s important to make this distinction, not to excuse the poor showing of Jeremy Corbyn’s party, but to emphasise that Labour, unlike the Conservatives, has a way out of its Brexit bind.
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