Sentences with phrase «to stay in the customs union»

This shouldn't be necessary of course — the government said it would stay in the customs union during transition — but ministers now seem uncertain about even this.

But, apart from staying in the customs union, he can not think of one.

Ex Tory Party leader Iain Duncan Smith today accused the EU of trying to «bully» the UK into staying in the customs union after Brexit.

Mrs May also faces a potential rebellion by Tory MPs threatening to side with Labour in a Commons vote to demand the UK stays in a customs union with the EU.

Labour has been forced to insist its position on Brexit remains unchanged after frontbencher Emily Thornberry suggested the party was in favour of staying in the customs union.

In the next few weeks May faces the return of the EU withdrawal bill to the Commons after a string of government defeats in the House of Lords on proposals such as staying in the customs union.

Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including the Commons debate on staying in the customs union after Brexit

It would be «completely crazy» for Theresa May to turn a Commons vote on whether to stay in the customs union into a vote of confidence in her government, Ken Clarke says.

If Britain stays in a customs union it must agree to apply the same tariffs on imports from outside the EU and can not negotiate free trade deals with other nations, as the government currently hopes to do once the U.K. leaves the bloc.

If the government is defeated in parliament on a key issue such as effectively staying in the Customs a Union Brexit would be dealt a severe blow.

Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellor who is backing the Soubry amendments, said there was a good chance the government would be defeated as he was «reasonably confident that the shadow cabinet and rest of the parliamentary Labour party» supported staying in the customs union.

«Jeremy Corbyn has been abandoned in many Leave areas — his pledge to stay in the customs union means he is not trusted to deliver Brexit.

On Sunday, Phillip Hammond and Liam Fox wrote a joint piece for the Sunday Telegraph agreeing that the UK would not stay in the customs union during transition.

And while his predecessor was a strong voice around the cabinet table for staying in the customs union, the new home secretary has made clear he is sceptical of softer Brexit options.

Socialist societies, affiliated organisations and trade unions all want Labour's policy to be clear about staying in the customs union.

Miss Truss, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, urged Parliament not to «bind the Prime Minister's hands» and warned that voters would see staying in the customs union as a betrayal.

Sir Keir Starmer says he wouldn't rule out staying in customs union post Brexit.

On the same day, the DUP's threat to Theresa May said that Northern Ireland staying in the customs union might destabilise their agreement.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

Polls have also shown that Labour members are strongly in favour of staying in the customs union, as well as the single market.

The Shadow International Trade Secretary said at the weekend that staying in the customs union after leaving the EU would be a «disaster» for Britain.

But support for May's partnership plan from the leading remainers, while angering the Brexiters, could make it more likely that she will avoid a damaging defeat on staying in the customs union, which Labour has said it will support.

Amid ongoing confusion over the Labour position on Brexit veteran Doncaster MP Flint warned that the public would view any attempt to stay in the customs union and European single market as an attempt to «wriggle out» of the result.

Jeremy Corbyn now appears to be suggesting Britain should stay in the Customs Union.

Idea one is staying in the customs union.

Straying onto Brexit, Rudd went off message when asked if the UK would stay in the customs union.

Ministers have agreed to tell the EU that Britain is willing to stay in the customs union after 2021 - teeing up a fresh clash with Conservative...

Or might she accept the vote, announce that the UK will stay in the customs union, and then be unseated by the hard Brexit advance guard in her party?

«I can not conceive of circumstances where Labour MPs are marshalled to go through the lobby and vote against us staying in the customs union and the single market, with the likes of Jacob Rees - Mogg, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove,» said Mr Umunna.

On Monday Barry Gardiner told the BBC that staying in the customs union, which manages the trade of goods within the EU, would be a «disaster,» adding in an article for the Guardian that it was simply «not possible» to remain in the arrangement after Brexit.

If the UK leaves the Single Market but stays in the Customs Union, what will be the difference, if any, to what we have now?

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.

Tory rebels were today warned they risk «plunging a knife into the heart» of Theresa May's premiership by voting to stay in a customs union with the EU.

The letter says Labour should commit to staying in a customs union with the EU, as well as the single market, after Brexit.

And the following day, shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner burnished Labour's hard Brexit credentials by declaring that staying in the customs union after quitting the EU would be «a disaster».

One Labour backbencher said: «Labour policy is to stay in the customs union and single market, at least in transition, so the anti-hard Brexit MPs» views are that this is not the time to give the Government carte blanche to impose tariffs taking us out of the customs union and single market.

Murray said in response: «If she [Dodds] disagrees with the technical aspects of my amendment, but agrees with the principle of staying in the customs union, where are the frontbench amendments to do that?»

Shadow International Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner, normally a Corbyn loyalist, told the BBC that staying in the customs union would be a «disaster».

The party has been beset by internal rows over Europe, with former frontbencher Heidi Alexander yesterday launching a savage attack on the Shadow International Trade Secretary, Barry Gardiner, over his claim that staying in the customs union would be a «disaster».

«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.»

Ed Balls has said most small and medium sized firms want to stay in the customs union and the single market after Brexit.

The Labour leadership is under pressure from some of their own MPs to join forces with Conservative rebels and the Lib Dems to back an amendment to the Trade Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, to stay in a customs union.

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney general who led the backbench revolt that saw Theresa May defeated on the EU withdrawal bill in December and who has signed an amendment saying the UK should stay in the customs union, has given an interview to the World at One.

Former Brexit minister David Jones said the «immensely complicated, and untried, arrangement is guaranteed to end up in chaotic failure» — a turn of events he said could lead to us staying in the customs union.

I worry that we would end up losing some of the advantages we have got in terms of trade with the EU and not gaining new advantages if we were to stay in the customs union.»

Miss Truss, who backed Remain, told the BBC's Pienaar's Politics that staying in the customs union would «effectively give control to the EU of our trade negotiations».

He said:» «What we have got is the EU now trying to put pressure on the British government to have to stay in the customs union.

If free movement is the price of staying in the Customs Union, I don't believe it is worth paying.

Staying in the customs union is the best way to achieve that.»