Sentences with phrase «to stay in the single market»

It might force the government to find ways of staying in the single market.
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.
Is this a clever attempt to stay in the single market without saying so - by setting conditions for exit which they know will never be fulfilled?
And by that point you've basically stayed in the single market and 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.
«If Brexit is to proceed then staying in the single market is the only option that makes sense,» she told reporters.
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 doesn'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.
She warned that voters could recognise that staying in the single market represented «staying in the EU in all but name».
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).
You can just about make an argument for liberalism and Brexit if you support staying in the single market and customs union, where goods and people still flow freely.
If Britain were to stay in the single market under whichever one of Boris» unclear preferred scenarios, it would keep the rules without the seat.
First, a caveat - the options are a bit of a word salad, trying to summarise Britain's choice between staying in the single market and limiting EU immigration.
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.
It was «very improbable» Britain would stay in the single market unless there were border controls, he said.
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.
He flexed his newfound muscles last night by sacking three ministers who backed an amendment on staying in the single market.
Could Sturgeon strike a deal to stay in the single market without maintaining full EU membership?
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.
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