Elsewhere in the speech, May promised control of laws, by leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ); control of immigration, by leaving the single market; rights of EU nationals, despite failing to guarantee at that point that they would not be deported; new trade deals,
by leaving the customs union; and free trade with European markets, by pretending that nothing had happened.
Not exact matches
The car industry is heavily reliant on tariff - free trade across the EU and
leaving the
customs union would disrupt supply chains
by requiring time - consuming checks and paperwork for components that currently pass across open borders.
If, as seems likely, the UK
leaves the
customs union, those remaining in business will then be hit
by tariffs on their exports.
«Notably, he is deeply concerned
by how the Conservative leadership has pandered to its right wing over the single market and
customs union,
leaving which will badly — and needlessly — damage our trade.»
The move - which comes ahead of a major Brexit speech
by Jeremy Corbyn next Monday - will enrage many
Leave supporters, who say
leaving the EU
customs union will allow Britain to strike its own trade deals with other countries.
Almost all our arguments - about transition, about the
customs union, about EU citizens, about the Irish border - are about the EU working with us to neutralise the risks we have ourselves created
by leaving.
Research
by Raoul Ruparel, who later became an adviser to Brexit secretary David Davis, estimates that
leaving the
customs union would reduce GDP
by between one and 1.2 % in the long term.
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn opened a fresh Brexit split inside Labour today after distancing himself from a call
by his own Shadow International Trade Secretary for Britain to
leave the
customs union.
For manufacturers like Honda,
leaving the
customs union is set to disrupt their «just in time» supply chain
by requiring time - consuming checks and paperwork as components pass across currently open borders.
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.
Gardiner's article this week saying Britain must
leave the single market and the
customs union in order to deliver Brexit was astonishingly hardline, and sparked a more concrete backlash - including from Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry, if reports are to be believed, not to mention the swift disownment of his comments
by Corbyn's press team.
Or you can
leave and stay in the
customs union, which would be worth about 4.5 % on GDP, according to an average taken from studies
by the Treasury, NIESR and the Centre for Economic Performance, and the London School of Economics.
Later in the interview she insisted «Brexit means Brexit», the phrase made famous
by Theresa May in the months before she triggered Article 50, leading to more hard questions about whether Labour wants to stay in the single market and the
customs union after Britain
leaves the EU in 2019.
Mr Corbyn has been hit
by a string of rebellions over Labour's Brexit policy, with around 60 of his MPs bitterly opposed to the party's official position that
leaving the EU should also mean quitting the single market and
customs union.