Jeremy Corbyn's customs union idea just might fly

It was a Freudian slip that hinted at the real question behind Jeremy Corbyn’s big Brexit speech in Coventry. As he reached out to moderate Conservative MPs to join him in supporting a new customs union with the EU, the Labour leader appeared to accidentally offer them “new cake” instead.

Blink and you missed it, but for those who have long worried that Labour is emulating Boris Johnson’s infamous “cake-and-eat-it” approach to Brexit, it was an unfortunate reminder that simply declaring what Britain wants from its negotiations with the EU is not the same as achieving it. Labour’s tactic for peeling off anxious Tories is widely seen as smart domestic politics, but whether it proves a smart policy too depends on convincing other countries to go along with it.

Source: theguardian