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I don't think this is true at all. If anything the 2017 Labour vote was clinging on to leave voters—why would remainers vote en masse for a party that was promising to leave the EU??
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It was my recollection at the time though - labour were still benefitting from people wanting "not this" about the Tory plans; being officially pro-leave probably meant that couldn't as easily be used against Lab in leave areas either. So they may have got the best of both worlds (although I recall at the time it being argued as the worst of both too)
andyfallsoff
The 2017 Labour vote was bolstered by the remain vote, which had nowhere else to go in a vain attempt to stop Brexit.