Center ground on Brexit is not the way to win voters – The Times, Thetimes.co.uk

Many a commentator has long since concluded that Labor would have little chance of winning an election so long as Jeremy Corbyn was its leader. He was seen as too left-wing, too radical and, perhaps, simply not up to the job.

Three years on from when Mr Corbyn first secured the leadership – and despite a much better performance in 2017 than most had anticipated – this prognosis would seem to be being fulfilled.

On average Labor stands at 25 per cent in the polls. That is three points down on the low point to which the party sank in 1983 when it was last led from the left, by Michael Foot. Yet this position has not been reached in the wake of a dose…