abour's frontbench is off in a world of its own right now: one in which it not only won last
month's election, but also has been clear on how it would handle Britain's departure from the European Union.
After claiming on BBC Question Time soon after the vote that "if anybody won that election, it was [Jeremy Corbyn]", Shami Chakrabarti didn't enjoy being reminded recently by Sky News' Sophy Ridge that he had actually lost.
The Shadow Attorney General boasted that “the manifesto who was ultimately the star of that campaign", but seemed to forget it ever happened when she was asked to sketch out where a Labour-managed Brexit would leave Britain. “We haven’t said we’d have control of free movement of people, you can’t necessarily have control," she said. That will be a surprise to anyone who read the manifesto Labour stood on, which promised a "managed" migration system as "freedom of movement...
