But we have given up
on staying in the single market (which would require us to accept European jurisdiction and the free movement of labor) or the customs union.
It is a secret plan to create a fairy tale alternate reality where parts of
Britain stay in a single market and customs union which they are no longer members of.
«If one part of UK can retain regulatory alignment with EU and
effectively stay in the single market (which is the right solution for Northern Ireland) there is surely no good practical reason why others can't,» Sturgeon said in a tweet.
Instead, European leaders were forced to watch in disbelief as British ministers claimed they could negotiate trade with individual EU member states, which is illegal, or that they could scrap free movement and
stay in the single market in current conditions.
Her reference to «all political parties» is seen as a dig at Labour who have softened their position on Brexit over the summer to include
staying in the single market for a transitional period but who still support a clean break with the EU at the end of the process.
He added: «If it is the case that the entire country does
n't stay in the single market and customs union then I'm sure that the EU, as demonstrated by their willingness to do a deal with Northern Ireland, would be amenable to a conversation with London.»
Even
staying in the single market does not provide that much reassurance, with the IFS warning that Britain's services economy would now be subject to regulatory decisions it would have lost the ability to influence.
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.
Labour has now committed to
staying in the single market during transition, so they may whip their MPs into opposing it (although with Jeremy Corbyn in charge it's hard to tell).
It's been there from Boris Johnson's early promises that you could get rid of free movement and
yet stay in the single market to the way tabloids constantly scream about open borders and then get terribly upset when British tourists face queues in foreign airports.
He claimed the Labour leader - who last month rejected calls to attend a cross-party summit on avoiding a «hard Brexit» - was «open minded»
about staying in the single market.
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.
But Watson's declaration comes just a few months after John McDonnell could not have been clearer that
staying in the single market after Brexit would be a betrayal of the British people.
The landscape of pro-European groups has been fractured since the referendum, with different bodies campaigning for everything
from staying in the single market to a second referendum or getting parliament to overturn the result.
The strength of feeling in parliament and in the country about whether the UK should
stay in the single market seems deeper than the feeling about membership of the EU.
If
Britain stays in the single market and customs union it'll be via the talks on the future relationship, in which it stays signed up to EU rules under an agreed arbitration system.
A group of Labour peers is protesting this weekend that Corbyn is not backing their efforts in the Lords to promote amendments to Brexit legislation that would allow the UK to
effectively stay in the single market.
Mr Corbyn is already under pressure from the trades unions and his own MPs to leave open the possibility
of staying in the single market and customs union.
She's certainly changed her position, but so too has the first minister, who has supported full EU membership,
then staying in the Single Market, a second independence referendum and a «transitional» arrangement involving EFTA / EEA, all in the past year.
There is really only one easy way to stop this, which is to
stay in the single market and customs union.
A package of measures which could be presented as a reform of free movement - they'd probably call it «fair movement» or something like that - but which would still allow you to
stay in the single market.
So eventually, the thinking goes, the government would accept that all of the UK would
stay in the single market and customs union.
Corbyn said on Sunday that
staying in the single market would be tantamount to remaining in the EU since the two are «inextricably linked».
Labour's official policy is now to
stay in the single market and customs union for a transition period - a position backed by trade unions, business bodies and all opposition parties apart from the DUP.
«The Tories would be reliant on the DUP with Northern Ireland in a very sensitive situation, or the Lib Dems who want to
stay in the single market, which the Tories have ruled out.
After all, if it is trying to effectively
stay in the single market in some sectors and diverge in others, it follows that the deal would be less comprehensive than staying in the single market and customs union altogether.
The House of Lords defeated the government by 245 votes to 218 and demanded that Britain
stays in the single market.
We will almost certainly have to
stay in the single market and thus apply free movement of people.
This media narrative grew to the point where even leading Brexiters were openly contemplating Britain
staying in the single market.
In other words,
we stay in the single market until we trigger the clause.
The former wants to try to renegotiate free movement terms and
stay in the single market, the latter seems to want out.
The obvious one is to
stay in the single market and customs union to preserve our current frictionless trade, absence of bureaucracy and access to foreign goods for Britain's shops and industries.
The prime minister does not want Britain to
stay in the single market.
«245 Peers from all parties and none have voted to
stay in the single market and protect the UK economy, defeating a Government hell - bent on pursuing ideology over prosperity.»
Any attempt to
stay in the single market would be considered an act of treachery, he said.
Philip Hammond, the actual chancellor, kept switching between saying Britain would
stay in the single market or leave it, as if there were little difference between the two options.