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Brexit: Labour amendment seeks 'full access' to EU market Brexit: Labour amendment seeks 'full access' to EU market
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Labour says it will try to force the government to stay in the EU's internal market by tabling amendments to Brexit legislation. Labour says it will try to force the government to seek a new deal with the EU on the single market when MPs vote on the Brexit bill next week.
The amendments would force the government to negotiate "full access to the internal market of the European Union" with no new barriers to trade. Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench has tabled amendments calling on Theresa May to seek "full access" to the single market in negotiations.
It is being seen as a move by Jeremy Corbyn's party towards a "softer" Brexit. Anti-Brexit campaigners said his latest move did not go far enough.
The government says the UK must leave the EU's single market. And Mr Corbyn is facing calls from some of his MPs to support European Economic Area (EEA) membership in the vote.
Its flagship Brexit bill faces a series of key votes next week. If it was an EEA member, the UK would get full access to the single market, have to pay into the EU budget and free movement laws would apply.
Labour's amendment does not go as far as this - the party has ruled out free movement - but it does call for "no new impediments" to trade.
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Norway-style EEA membership is on the agenda because it was backed by the House of Lords last month when they made changes to the government's EU Withdrawal Bill.
Ministers will seek to undo the Lords' changes to the EU bill in a series of key votes on Tuesday.
One of those will be on the EEA, and pro-EU campaigners urged Labour to focus on this option to defeat the government.
Labour MP Chuka Umunna said: "The only amendment that has any prospect of success on the European Economic Area, on the internal market as some people call it, is the amendment that has been sent back to us from the House of Lords."
Like the Labour leadership, the government has also ruled out membership of the EEA after Brexit, saying this would not give the UK "control of our borders or our laws".