Corbyn scores opportunistic goal

The Labour leader has made himself sound more pro-business than the Tories. Emily Hohler reports.

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During her Lancaster House speech a year ago, Theresa May kept open the option of membership of a post-Brexit customs union with the European Union, says the Evening Standard. Last Thursday, it was "formally closed" and on Monday Jeremy Corbyn "kicked the ball into the back" of this open goal, declaring Labour's support for one. In doing so, the Labour leader has "manoeuvred himself into a more pro-business, pro-free-trade European policy than the Tory government".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.