When the coming electoral contest is settled, there will either be a government led by an anti-austerity Labour party committed to a referendum with remain on the ballot paper, or a hard-right Tory party committed to the hardest of Brexits. Everything else is noise.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of noise, and Labour is partly responsible. The party’s new Brexit position – that a deal with the EU should be put to the British people, and the government will implement whatever decision they make – is entirely straightforward, or at least it should be. It was, after all, the sole demand of the People’s Vote campaign, which – until three months ago – did not even officially back remain, just a referendum to end the impasse. But Labour is failing to communicate its stance clearly, fuelling a perception that the policy is a contorted mess when it actually isn’t.
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