Labour Needs a Clearer Plan for Brexit

The Tories face electoral oblivion because of their disastrous embrace of Brexit. But if Labour waits until it is in office to work out how to reduce the damage, it may already be too late

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Amid all the coverage of last week’s local elections, one figure stands out: the Conservative’s national share of the vote was just 25 per cent. That was roughly in line with the  party’s current average share of the vote in national opinion polls at 23 per cent, which in turn happens to be exactly the percentage of people in Britain who think Brexit is going well. That is surely not coincidental.

Everything that has gone wrong for the Tories can be traced to Brexit. Barely a day passes without fresh evidence of the damage that it is causing. Last week it was the introduction of new border checks which will heap …