Another referendum could be “a healing process”, Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday as he defended Labour’s policy of “trying to offer something to everyone”.

The Labour leader launched his campaign for the European parliament elections insisting that his party was neither a Remain nor a Leave party. He reiterated, however, that it would prefer to secure a Brexit deal than hold another referendum.

Speaking in Kent, Mr Corbyn tried to cast Labour as a party that straddled the divisions exposed by the 2016 referendum. “We insist the real divide in our country is not how people voted in the EU referendum,” he said. “The real divide is between the many and the few. Whether you’re from Tottenham or Mansfield, Stockwell or Stoke, here in Medway or…