So does this anticipated Labout split represent the end of the

[Pokster]

Corbyn project?

Am I safe to leave the house now, without fear of persecution?

An economist has just sent something through about this... if it is only a couple of dozen then it will be seen as an irrelevance, if it got up to about 80 that would likely prevent a Labour (Corbyn Govt), but saying that you now have a number of Tory seets looking to deselect remainers....

They say this could realign UK politics but wont ve in the short term

[Burney]

An economist has just sent something through about this... if it is only a couple of dozen then it will be seen as an irrelevance, if it got up to about 80 that would likely prevent a Labour (Corbyn Govt), but saying that you now have a number of Tory seets looking to deselect remainers....

They say this could realign UK politics but wont ve in the short term

Yes, but deselecting remainers from tory seats will make it more likely that the tories win those seats at an election (although in fact the tory party has no mechanism for deselection, merely for insisting candidates be presented for reselection). A 'centrist' party represents very little threat to the Tories in terms of votes. For Labour, on the other hand, the rise of any centrist party would mean an almost certainly unsurvivable loss of vital votes in marginals.