Daily Mail

Does Labour even knowits single market policy?

- Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry Corbyn Deputy leader Tom Watson Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer Corbyn

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.’

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