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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 seek a new deal with the EU on the single market when MPs vote on the Brexit bill next week. | 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. |
| Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench has tabled amendments calling on Theresa May to seek "full access" to the single market in negotiations. | Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench has tabled amendments calling on Theresa May to seek "full access" to the single market in negotiations. |
| Anti-Brexit campaigners said his latest move did not go far enough. | Anti-Brexit campaigners said his latest move did not go far enough. |
| And Mr Corbyn is facing calls from some of his MPs to support European Economic Area (EEA) membership in the vote. | And Mr Corbyn is facing calls from some of his MPs to support European Economic Area (EEA) membership in the vote. |
| 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. | 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 of people - but it does call for "no new impediments" to trade. | |
| 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. | 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. | 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. | 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." | 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". | 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". |