Whatever else he achieved during his six years in power, David Cameron, who is stepped down as prime minister on Wednesday, will forever be remembered as the man who took Britain out of the European Union.
It is a strange epitaph for a political leader who once vowed to stop his party "banging on about Europe" and it is hardly the way he would have wanted to go down in history.
Mr Corbyn said he would be asking Labour's executive to consider the issue in the future, but told reporters questions about Mr Cameron's reported honours choices should be directed at Mr Cameron.
When he burst on to the scene in 2005, beating better-known rivals to the party leadership, he wanted to be seen as a new kind of Conservative, young, liberal-minded, socially concerned and, above all, modern.
There would be no place in Cameron's Conservative Party for the toxic rows about the European Union that had brought the party to the brink of destruction under previous leaders.
It is a strange epitaph for a political leader who once vowed to stop his party "banging on about Europe" and it is hardly the way he would have wanted to go down in history.
Mr Corbyn said he would be asking Labour's executive to consider the issue in the future, but told reporters questions about Mr Cameron's reported honours choices should be directed at Mr Cameron.
He led the Conservative Party for nearly 11 years - only Stanley Baldwin, Lady Thatcher and Sir Winston Churchill spent longer in the job in modern times - returning them to power after more than a decade in the political wilderness.
When he burst on to the scene in 2005, beating better-known rivals to the party leadership, he wanted to be seen as a new kind of Conservative, young, liberal-minded, socially concerned and, above all, modern.
There would be no place in Cameron's Conservative Party for the toxic rows about the European Union that had brought the party to the brink of destruction under previous leaders.
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