«Any assurances given about our future relationship
with the customs union and the single market would go to the very heart of the Brexit negotiations, revealing whether the government is intending to stay within either, or whether you intend to negotiate a patchwork of carve - outs, subsidies and sectoral arrangements, which will create winners and
losers and may cost the
taxpayer colossal amounts of
money,» he said.
Astonishingly, Opposition Conservative Leader Jason Kenney, normally a harsh ideological foe of «picking winners and
losers»
with taxpayers»
money, was apparently willing to make an exception for the oil industry.