And when Greg Clark's suggestion that failing to striking that arrangement would cost jobs was put to her, she replied that the Business Secretary
backed leaving the customs union.
Theresa May can still convince MPs to
back leaving the customs union, a minister claimed today amid reports the Prime Minister could back down.
Not exact matches
He states dutifully: «Before the referendum we all agreed on what
leaving the EU logically must entail:
leaving the
customs union and the single market,
leaving the penumbra of the ECJ; taking
back control of borders, cash, laws.
Redwood's argument is that the UK is bound into the EU's trade policy by its membership of the
customs union and that the EU's trade policy is to have no agreements with other countries at all — thereby
leaving both us and them on
back - up WTO trade terms when it comes to the rest of the world.
Significantly, even among Labour voters who
backed Leave, 37 % said they want Corbyn to support permanent single market and
customs union membership, compared with just 26 % who did not.