Corbyn’s team watched May’s speech with concern as she framed the election around Brexit, an issue which could only expose the divisions in Labour between their metropolitan Remain supporters and the working-class voters who had backed Leave the year before. The party held twenty of the top twenty-five most Remain seats, and the same number of seats where Leave won biggest. As May finished, Corbyn turned to his aides and said, ‘She’s done that pretty well.’ One recalled, ‘It very effectively set out what they wanted the campaign to be.’
