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A lot of the confusion over Labour referendum move stems from still instinctively seeing them as a coherent, unified political organisation.
They stopped being that a while back, and degraded into a collection of warring fiefdoms. Even within People's Vote types there were differences.
So yes of course Jeremy Corbyn is still a eurosceptic and will do whatever he can to stop a People's Vote taking place. And yes Milne and McCluskey will still fight rearguard defence against the policy.
But that does not mean it is some kind of trick. it simply means Starmer currently has the upper hand, alongside McDonnell, with Corbyn loyalist anti-Brexit figures like Lammy or Lewis behind them, due to the defections last week.
It's not a cynical plot. It is far more chaotic than that. It is a shift of dominance in a unit that is still treated as singular, when in fact it is plural.
