Here’s a sentence that would have made no sense three years ago: Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell are trying to woo Nigel Dodds. That’s the only sensible conclusion to draw from a Sky News interview with the leader of the opposition this evening, in which he defends the DUP’s opposition to the Irish backstop and claims they could “absolutely” support a Labour Brexit.
Corbyn was asked whether the possibility of a confidence vote in Theresa May’s administration explained why, to the consternation of some of its MPs and sister party in Northern Ireland, the Labour leadership taken the same absolutist line on the backstop as the government’s sometime confidence and supply partners.
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