Merlin, we have all seen these articles, and are fully aware of the JC's official stance during the referendum. However I have pointed out that Corbyn is instinctively and historically anti-EU. He comes from the left wing of the Labour party which was traditionally anti-EU, and was extremely close to Tony Benn, whom he is said to have regarded as his mentor. Tony Benn saw the EU as fundamentally undemocratic, and believed that it would destroy our parliamentary democracy and turn the UK into a vassal state. More privately he saw the EU as the anvil upon which what we now identify as the neolibs would build their new world order. Corbyn did vote against membership in 1975, he did vote against Masstricht, and he did vote against Lisbon.
Since becoming leader of the Labour party, rather than having the courage of his much vaunted convictions, he rolled over to the demands of the now die-hard pro-EU modern Labour Party, a conversion itself cynically undertaken by NuLab when Blair recognised the opportunities that it offered to exploit then as now euro-factionalised Tories. Whilst on the subject of cynical, Corbyn then deleted all of the archives of his speeches and other material, the better to conceal from the world his somewhat unsuitable past, and to facilitate his reinvention as the weirdly shiny new Jesus 'cuddly' Corbyn that people like you are falling over themselves in their contortions to convince the more sceptical amongst us that he is the new messiah.
All of which conveniently disguises the fact that the Labour party is torn asunder by Brexit. Whilst in sheer numbers Labour voters were, as you point out from Ashcroft's research, 62:38 in favour of remain (YouGov finds 65:35, so even more), in constituency terms, a significant proportion of Labour regions outside of London and the major cities voted in equal or greater proportions to leave, and the reasons cited were control of immigration and repatriation of law-making from Brussels. This included swathes of the traditional industrial regions of the NW, NE and Midlands. Against this the parliamentary Labour party (and metropolitan Labour) were overwhelmingly for remain, which has faced the Labour policymakers with a conundrum, and forced their hand on Brexit. Labour is therefore officially pro-Brexit and pro-immigration control, which basically means they are pro-'hard' Brexit.
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