Jeremy Corbyn’s botched relaunch yesterday was successful in only one way: it kept the Labour leader in the headlines throughout the day. Unfortunately his various u-turns on immigration – as well as his unexpected maximum pay cap, which he also rowed back on – ensured this blanket coverage was for all the wrong reasons. And today’s newspaper editorials also make miserable reading for those hopeful that Corbyn might have managed a fresh start in 2017.
It was a ‘day-long carnival of jaw-dropping buffoonery’, says the Sun, which picks apart Corbyn’s various outings yesterday. The paper says this platform offered an opportunity for Corbyn to deal with the subject of immigration which has left the party looking like ‘sitting ducks’ for Ukip. Instead, Corbyn bungled it by insisting that ‘full single market access, which demands limitless migration, was paramount’. ‘He has made a fool of himself before,; the paper says, ‘But these were uncharted depths of muppetry’.
Even after Jeremy Corbyn’s numerous media appearances yesterday, the Daily Mail says a big question remains: ‘What is Labour’s policy on Brexit?’.
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