this is going to be the argument within labor for the next few months, it looks like, as labor move into a leadership election. the people around the leadership, the people around jeremy corbyn are saying the problem was brexit, that this wasn t anything to do with the leader, this was just about brexit, that s why labor lost. and, of course, more corbyn critical-led members are saying this was about the leader, as well. that will be the argument. the answer is, of course, it was clearly both, labor s brexit position managed to alien ate previous backers of remain and previous backers of leaving the european union. but jeremy corbyn had appallingly low ratings as a leader, appallingly low approval ratings, so there was a problem with the leadership, there was a problem with the brexit policy and many say there was a problem with labor s manifesto. also, duncan, now boris