Sentences with phrase «said leaving the single market»

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Following its release, Tusk said that as the U.K. has repeatedly stated it wants to leave the single market, the customs union and the jurisdiction of the ECJ, then only trade would be left to discuss.

Speaking exclusively to CNBC Thursday, Sadiq Khan said that leaving the single market «would be bad for London.»

Britain says it wants to strike bilateral trade deals with non-EU countries but it can not do that unless it leaves not only the single market but the looser customs union.

The Conservative manifesto is at least honest in saying they plan to leave the single market and customs union.

The Britain Stronger In Europe campaign focused on the failure of leading leave campaigners to say whether the UK would remain a member of the single market outside the EU.

Sir Andrew Cook, who has given # 1.2 m to party, says UK will «sleepwalk to disaster» if it leaves single market

He says some people said at the time they wanted to leave the EU but stay in the single market.

He relaunched the group along with the new vice chair Suella Fernandes MP, and it took off with a flourish, persuading, as Baker put it, «Sixty Conservatives plus colleagues from the DUP, Labour and UKIP» to sign a statement saying that ««The UK must leave the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Customs Union», the so - called «Single Market»» — the position we now know as hard Brexit.

The American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, which represents US business interests in Europe, said May's decision to leave the single market could cost the UK 1.4 million jobs and # 488 billion of direct investment from US companies in Britain.

He said: «For many months we in Labour have been demanding the fullest possible access to the single market, emphasising the risks of leaving the customs union, arguing for a collaborative relationship with our EU partners, emphasising the need for transitional arrangements and the need for entrenchment of workers» rights.

On the one hand they want to leave the customs union and the single market while at the same time they say they want to maintain tariff free access to the single market.

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.

He went on to say that while the UK had to leave the single market, it couldn't end up being a «passive recipient of rules decided elsewhere by others» even though that, one might argue, is the logical consequence of leaving the single market.

Though Remain voters backed prioritising single market access by an overwhelming 76 per cent to 12 per cent, just one in five Leave voters said the single market was more important.

However two thirds of Leave voters said EU immigration needed to be reduced whatever the consequences for single market access

Johnson said Britain wanted to maintain access to the European single market, but added: «We'll probably have to leave the customs union, but it is a question that will be discussed.

He wanted the prime minister to say we'd be leaving the single market.

«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.

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.

Former Shadow Cabinet member Chuka Umunna said the Labour leader should support keeping the UK in the single market and the customs union even after it leaves the European Union.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version said incorrectly that the 2016 referendum vote «includes leaving the single market and customs union».

«Remaining part of the single market is the only way we can mitigate the worst effects of leaving the EU,» she said.

In a speech last year he said the EU had «brought an unprecedented 71 years of peace to western Europe», asking: «Will the Government reveal to Parliament and the British people the damage to the economy that will result from Brexit if we leave the European Single Market?»

«The leave camp are saying you can still be part of the single market; I think we just need to be realistic,» he said.

Commenting on Theresa May's announcement that Britain will leave the Single Market, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Mark Williams MP, said;

Maugham said that, without this power, the UK would be forced to take whatever deal Brexit Secretary David Davis managed to achieve or leave with no deal on important economic and social issues, including access for British firms to the single market, and the rights of British citizens living, travelling or wishing to retire in Europe.