As a more-than-close watcher of UK politics, the strangest aspect (of many strange aspects) of Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign was his dogged refusal to take a stance on Brexit.
A blind man could see that he was trying - and failing - see which way the wind was blowing but ended up taking no position at all even when it mattered most. Making matters worse, every sensible person knew that Labour - as a party or as a voting bloc - were pro-EU with every fiber of their being, because the EU are authoritarianism writ large and so are Labour.
The EU is dying a slow death anyway and all the so-called benefits of membership were already disappearing rapidly.
Corbyn has been a lifelong critic of the EU and even his own brother suggested that he probably voted “leave” in the privacy of the electoral booth. Trouble is, he was trapped between his own views on the EU on the one hand, and the predominantly remainer ones ov the Lanout establishment and his own supporters. Hence his half hearted public ambivalence.
I suspect that he is quietly pleased that his prevarication on brexit has resulted in the inevitability of Brexit now.