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by digianarchist 1277 days ago
This is complete nonsense.

Quite a few Labour MPs supported Leave [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Leave

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Especially Corbyn, though of course he couldn't "support it" outright because that would mean agreeing with Tories (and he couldn't oppose it outright without angering a lot of Labour members)
Another rewrite of history. He backed Remain.
Corbyn is a lifelong Eurosceptic who voted against every expansion of EU power that came before him in his entire ~30 year career as an MP pre-2016. He only "opposed" Brexit in 2016 because he had to.
Did he? Any support he gave was so tepid, I barely noticed.
He made more media appearances than Alan Johnson who was running Labour’s Remain campaign.
I agree, pre-referendum he backed Remain, but after that his position was not so firm https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-ch...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/jeremy-corb...

Very reluctantly, and probably against his own better judgment, at least that was the impression he created.