Jeremy Corbyn keeps missing chances to take the lead over the government
s, and more defections are promised, its support seems to come mainly from erstwhile Labour voters. With polls showingwhich is moving towards becoming a fully fledged party, scoring in the mid-teens, the Tory lead over Labour has widened into double figures.And that is just one of Labour’s splits. Tom Watson, the deputy leader, is setting up the Future Britain Group, a social-democratic club of 50-odd Labours that amounts to a party within the party.
Mr Corbyn is also suffering from continuing rows over anti-Semitism. When Luciana Berger joined the breakaway, she declared that Labour was institutionally anti-Semitic. On March 7th the official equality watchdog said that Labour may have unlawfully discriminated against Jews, and that it was considering using its statutory enforcement powers against the party. The ugly saga has badly tarnished the image of Mr Corbyn as a peace-loving anti-racism campaigner.
As if to stir things up, into all this has fallen Labour’s dilemma over Brexit. Mr Corbyn is a long-standing Eurosceptic who was against Britain joining what he considers a capitalist club. His immediate circle is mostly pro-Brexit, not least because of fears that the’s state-aid rules might stand in the way of efforts to build socialism in Britain. Yet the party’sand see Brexit as central to a Tory policy that aims also at cutting social welfare, deregulating and reducing workers’ rights.
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