Time for Corbyn to re-steer the HMS Brexit

Now that the specific realities of leaving the EU are evident, the British Labour leader has a historic opportunity - if he has the stomach for it - to demand a second referendum

The aircraft carrier the HMS Queen Elizabeth: just before Christmas, it was revealed that the ship is leaking. Perhaps, given all the unfortunate circumstances and the symbolism involved, they should have named it HMS Brexit Pic: Leon Neal/Getty

Last December, Britain launched the first of two new aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth. It’s an enormous ship, the biggest in the Royal Navy, weighing 70,000 tons, costing £3.1 billion and taking eight years to construct. According to the ship’s bombastic publicity hand-out, its deck space consists of four acres of “British sovereign territory”. Indeed.

But sadly it will be some time before it has any aircraft on its decks, as there is ...