Thread by @nickreeves9876

1/ Alistair Campbell @campbellclaret is entirely right that Labour has let the Brexit right get into their heads. In spite of Corbyn & hopelessly inept Labour and LibDem campaigns 2nd referendum parties gained a clear majority of the popular vote in 2019.
theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/we…

2/ Had Starmer been leading Labour and had it conducted a reasonable campaign then it might have boosted its vote by 4-6% at the Tories' expense, putting it at around 37% vs the Tories on 38.5%.

3/ Had Labour and the LibDems cooperated in key seats - much easier with Starmer as Labour leader than Corbyn who was toxic to the moderate Tory voters the LibDems needed to capture we would almost certainly have had another hung Parliament & quite possibly Starmer in Number 10.

4/ The Brexit right are far from invincible. Their ascendancy has been made possible by the incompetence of the opposition. Had the opposition been competently led and capable of some basic cooperation we would now be in a very different place.

5/ And I've been looking at things as they might have been in December 2019. It is clear that since then support for Brexit has diminished, and doubtless it will fall by a few more percent in the coming months. Brexit is a fading cause.

6/ I hope people read this thread and Campbell's article, because so many people have slipped into the entirely false conclusion that Brexit is the political force which we dare not challenge.

7/ It is often said that it would be fatal for Labour to oppose Brexit. In addition to my arguments above, it should be noted that there is zero empirical evidence for this claim. Not for one day since the referendum has Labour made the case against Brexit.