THERESA MAY repeats ad nauseam that only she is strong and stable enough to negotiate Britain’s exit from the European Union, but who knows what her agenda is?

May derides Corbyn as not having a Brexit plan, but the totality of her vision for Britain after leaving the EU is to create “the world’s great meritocracy,” by which she understands an expansion of grammar schools in England.

“You can only deliver Brexit if you believe in Brexit,” she intoned in Teesside, perhaps forgetting that she campaigned for Britain to remain an EU member.

Indeed she told merchant bankers — her core audience — just weeks before the referendum vote: “If we were not in Europe, I think there would be firms and companies who would be looking to say, do they need to develop a mainland Europe presence rather than a UK presence? So I think there are definite benefits for us in economic terms.”

May followed the City line of remaining and her priority is still doing a deal to benefit transnational finance sector interests no matter the effect on the rest of the economy.

The Tory leader’s refusal to come clean on this reflects her reluctance to give details on other aspects of economic policy.

She jumped like a scalded cat when pensioners twigged that there was no upper limit on home care charges under her proposed dementia tax, insisting that there would be a cap but wouldn’t say what it would be.

Old people’s winter fuel payments will not be a universal benefit if she wins another term in Number 10, but she won’t reveal a qualifying cut-off income.

Chancellor Philip Hammond had to drop his idea of raising national insurance for self-employed workers because of Cameron’s manifesto pledge, so May has dropped the “no rise in income tax or national insurance” commitment but won’t confirm her plan to reinstate Hammond’s scheme.

While Labour has costed its entire economic programme, the Tories have made various declarations without the slightest effort to suggest where the cash may come from.

On both the economy and EU exit negotiations, May recites: “Trust me, I’m a Tory politician.”

Far from Corbyn not having a plan, he stresses that EU citizens working here would be entitled to remain here indefinitely, that all EU workplace and environmental conditions must be maintained and that a mutually beneficial trade deal should be negotiated to defend jobs and national income.

While the Labour leader followed his party’s position of remaining in the EU, he understood clearly that, once a decision was taken last June 23, it must be accepted and implemented by government.

Too many in the labour movement accepted the Establishment line that the Leave decision was cast irrevocably in the image of the Tory far-right and Ukip and heralded an extended era of economic disaster for working people.

Some berated those on the left who campaigned to leave the EU neoliberal straitjacket that has crucified the people of Greece, together with the bloc’s racist Fortress Europe policies that condemn countless thousands of refugees to drown in the Mediterranean.

Such defeatists should acknowledge their own political short-sightedness as the Tories and their Kipper allies are currently in chaos while the odds on a Corbyn-led Labour victory are narrowing daily.

The sharp contrast over how to negotiate Brexit between Corbyn’s progressive internationalism that puts workers’ interests first and May’s boardrooms-dictated waffle should strengthen Labour’s position still further.

Trounce the Tories and charge Corbyn’s team with negotiating a People’s Brexit.