On Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn only listens to the Leavers. Why? | William Keegan

Labour's leader stands on the principle that members make party policy - and the majority of them are Remainers

'So what," the schoolboy son of a friend asked, while being forced to listen to the Today programme on the school run, "was politics before Brexit?"

This brought back memories of my own naive inquiry of my father at the end of the second world war: "Will there be any more news, Daddy?" Not too enlightened for an embryonic journalist, but you can see the point.

I keep having to remind people that a host of very prosperous people voted Leave, for reasons best known to themselves

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