Does Labour even knowits single market policy?
JULY 1, 2016 – IN
‘The damage that could be done to the economy of pulling out the single market at this time could be substantial.’
JUNE 11, 2017 – OUT
‘I think people will interpret membership of the single market as not respecting the referendum.’ McDonnell
JUNE 15 – OUT
‘Leaving the EU means we need to leave the single market.’
JULY 23 – OUT
Labour would leave single market as that is ‘dependent on membership of the EU’.
AUGUST 31 – IN... for ever
‘Being part of the customs union and the single market is important in those transitional times... and it might be a permanent outcome.’
SEPT 3 – IN... temporarily
‘What we’ve said is the transitional period... will be within a customs union and within a single market.’
YESTERDAY – IN or OUT?
‘There has to be a trade relationship with Europe, whether that’s formally in the single market or whether that’s an agreement to trade within the single market.’