As Jeremy Corbyn has argued over Brexit, Labour must prioritise jobs and the economy, and that, for 50 Labour parliamentarians who have signed a new statement,
means staying in the single market and the customs union — something the TUC and business also want.
Not exact matches
Staying in the
single market as a member of the European Economic Area would
mean Scotland's economy would be 2.7 % smaller by 2030 than it would be if Brexit did not happen at all, Sturgeon said.
Virtually all economists are unanimous
in stressing the dire economic consequences of leaving the
single market, but May might consider it politically impossible to
stay in if it
means retaining freedom of movement.
That
means no deal is off the table, at a minimum they have guaranteed
staying in regulatory alignment as the absolute baseline, which is 90 %
in the
Single Market.
That
means we would either
stay in the
single market and customs union or - much more likely - promise to
stay signed up to all the EU rules into the future, as Cabinet wets like Philip Hammond and Amber Rudd want.
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.
«The way we've put it is that we would start with viable options,
staying in a customs union and a
single market variant which
means full participation
in the
single market.»