You underestimate his underlying vulnerability that endured even after the 2017 election. Maintaining a leave position would likely have forced another leadership challenge, and that would have been decided by the membership, which would have no longer supported him.


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Right. Because there’s no way Corbyn could ever survive Shadow Cabinet resignations, is there?
Oddly enough, the joy of his ‘project’ would have been that he could have relied upon the hardcore (and entryist members) to stay onside because achieving their socialist nirvana was more important than the short-term distraction of Brexit and this was how it could be achieved.
A clever, agile, charismatic and persuasive political leader could have pulled it off. Happily, Corbyn was none of those things.