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Amid difficult political terrain, the Labour leadership has spelled out how to advance working-class interests without conceding to xenophobia or nationalism in a post-Brexit Britain, says VINCE MILLS
Jeremy Corbyn has set out a Brexit negotiating strategy that would maintain trade ties while restoring democratic control of the economy

IN THE days preceding Jeremy Corbyn’s Coventry speech on Labour’s relationship to the EU, the Labour leader could have been forgiven for feeling that he was being surrounded. 

On one side were the anti-Brexiteers, from the right of the Labour Party marching under the banner of Progress, arguing that an imagined economic catastrophe can only be avoided, at the very least, by remaining in the single market and the customs union (note the use of the definite article). 

More than 80 notables in the Labour Party had signed a joint letter to the Observer the day before the speech, urging Corbyn to support Britain’s continued membership of the single market. 

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