He maintained Labour's position - which he stated during the election campaign - that leaving the EU
meant leaving the single market.
Not exact matches
Prime Minister May has been clear that Brexit will
mean Britain will
leaving the
single market, customs union and jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
When she tells the Commons, as she did this week, that during the transition «we would not be in the
single market or customs union as we will have
left the European Union», hard Brexiters must simply learn what that
means.
Brexit doesn't necessarily
mean we'll
leave the
single market.
If necessary, it can reassure its
Leave voters that it wanted very much to leave the single market in apparent (although by no means clear) accordance with their wishes, but Dublin's insistence on a fully open border has rendered that imposs
Leave voters that it wanted very much to
leave the single market in apparent (although by no means clear) accordance with their wishes, but Dublin's insistence on a fully open border has rendered that imposs
leave the
single market in apparent (although by no
means clear) accordance with their wishes, but Dublin's insistence on a fully open border has rendered that impossible.
These are the brutal realities of what
leaving the
single market and customs union
means for agricultural goods.
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.
Will Boris Johnson admit that a «free trading arrangement»
means leaving the valuable EU
single market?
The statement by Jeremy Corbyn that we were definitely
leaving the European Union and definitely
leaving the
single market means that Labour now appear to have identical policies on Brexit to the Tories.
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.
«Those wanting to
leave the EU want to pull Britain out of the
single market, which would
mean introducing tariffs and barriers to our trade and putting billions of vital trade at risk,» Darling said.
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.
As suggested by the recent bill however, the UK
leaving the
single market will
mean transported goods are treated as imports and exports and therefore subject to expensive import VAT and custom duties, long before the increase can be passed on to the customer.