DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Will Corbyn's pro-EU youth cult finally see him as the ...

Back in October 2015, a few weeks after Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, his spin doctors released a video to introduce him to the masses.

The tagline was ‘Straight talking, honest politics’, the same slogan Mr Corbyn had used during his leadership campaign.

Ever since, his perceived honesty has been one of Mr Corbyn’s greatest political assets.

As his adoring acolytes in Momentum never cease to remind us, he is supposedly the one straight man in a Parliament of crooks, the only politician who can always be relied upon to tell us the truth, the messiah who will lead Britain to the promised land.

The JC: Jeremy Corbyn's adoring Momentum acolytes claim he is 'the messiah who will lead Britain to the promised land' (pictured with students in Nottingham last month)

The JC: Jeremy Corbyn's adoring Momentum acolytes claim he is 'the messiah who will lead Britain to the promised land' (pictured with students in Nottingham last month)

I have always had my doubts about that. And now Jeremy Corbyn has revealed just how honest he is. And although I hate to say I told you so — well, you can guess the rest.

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First, a bit of background. For the past two years, Mr Corbyn has consistently claimed that he voted Remain in the EU referendum. He has constantly decried Theresa May’s attempts to strike a deal with Brussels, insisting that he would do a better job.

He has flirted with holding a second referendum, though, oddly, he has never quite committed himself despite immense recent pressure from his party. Above all, he’s gone out of his way to curry favour with idealistic young voters, many of whom are passionately attached to the EU and believe that St Jeremy would give them a ‘People’s Vote’.

To anybody who knows anything about Mr Corbyn’s dogmatic hard-Left prejudices, all this has always smelled very fishy. After all, he inherited his much-trailed principles from his political hero, Tony Benn, an avowed opponent of Brussels who always regarded the EU as a capitalist conspiracy.

A video emerged from 2009 of Jeremy Corbyn branding the EU a 'European empire of the 21st century'

A video emerged from 2009 of Jeremy Corbyn branding the EU a 'European empire of the 21st century'

The film, dating from 2009, was seized on by Mr Corbyn's own mutinous MPs as evidence that he was always going to 'facilitate Brexit'

The film, dating from 2009, was seized on by Mr Corbyn's own mutinous MPs as evidence that he was always going to 'facilitate Brexit'

For Benn, the EU was the Great Satan, because its rules prevented the wholesale nationalisations, state subsidies and capital controls (limiting the amount of money that can be brought into or out of a country) that would turn Britain into an Atlantic version of East Germany.

Indeed, in the early Eighties, Benn and his allies — a prominent example being one J. Corbyn of Islington — insisted that a future Labour government must pull out of Europe immediately, paving the way for massive wealth taxes.

Mr Corbyn has not changed his mind about a single thing in the past half-century, so it always struck me as very implausible that he’d become a latter-day convert to the Gospel according to Brussels.

Indeed, his efforts during the referendum campaign were so half-hearted that many of his own aides suspected he wanted Leave to win.

And now, in a video filmed in 2009 and obtained by a Left-wing website, we have the proof. For what the video shows is what the Labour leader really believes. This is Jeremy Corbyn when he really was Jeremy Corbyn: not the darling of the Glastonbury-going classes, but the hard-Left backbencher for whom no tax was too high, no dictatorship too anti-Western.

It was filmed in Ireland where Mr Corbyn was speaking during a referendum campaign on the Lisbon Treaty, which aimed to strengthen the unity and power of the European Union. The Irish had rejected it a year earlier, but were forced to vote again by Brussels and by their own political elite.

In the video, Mr Corbyn urges the Irish to vote No again. ‘If you succeed in getting a No vote here,’ he says passionately, ‘that will be such a boost to people like us, all over Europe, who do not want to live in

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