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Labour to seek full tariff-free access to EU single market following Brexit Supreme Court ruling | Labour to seek full tariff-free access to EU single market following Brexit Supreme Court ruling |
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Labour has said it will seek full tariff-free access to the single market following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Theresa May must consult Parliament on Article 50. | |
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would not “frustrate the process for invoking Article 50” but would seek to amend the legislation to prevent the UK becoming a “bargain-basement tax haven”. | |
He said: “Labour will seek to build in the principles of full, tariff-free access to the single market and maintenance of workers' rights and social and environmental protections. | He said: “Labour will seek to build in the principles of full, tariff-free access to the single market and maintenance of workers' rights and social and environmental protections. |
“Labour is demanding a plan from the Government to ensure it is accountable to Parliament throughout the negotiations and a meaningful vote to ensure the final deal is given parliamentary approval.” | |
Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer told Sky News that Labour would seek to amend government legislation to ensure Parliament had a meaningful role in the Brexit process. | |
Sir Keir said it was important for the Government to produce a formal document progress can be tested against. | |
“Parliament needs to have a meaningful role at the outset in knowing and setting out the objectives but also a grip on the process until we get to the conclusion,” he said. | |
He said it was “very important” for the Government to publish a formal statement of their negotiating objectives. | |
“Parliament and the select committees, and the public, need something formal that they can test progress against, because otherwise it’s very hard to see how accountability will work.” |
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