REVELATIONS that the European Commission is “playing hardball” on Brexit because it fears an interventionist Jeremy Corbyn government confirm “the reasons I voted against every single European treaty,” Labour veteran Dennis Skinner told the Morning Star today.

A senior EU source briefed The Times that commissioners were ramping up fears of Tory deregulation “because it is better public relations,” but their “real fear is state subsidies under a Corbyn government.”

The source noted that British policy had remained “unchanged for generations, but now there is a real chance of a left-wing government reversing it,” and said the EU would be pushing for a “non-regression clause” locking Thatcherite policies into British law “to protect ourselves and the single market.”