Juncker: UK must accept EU rules for single market

Britain will have to accept European Union rules “without exception or nuance” if it wants to keep full access to the single market after Brexit, European Commission president Jean-claude Juncker has said.

Mr Juncker’s comments represent a further setback to hopes that the UK might be able to maintain tarifffree trade with its former partners while imposing controls on immigration from the EU.

They follow French President François Hollande’s warning, after talks with Theresa May last week, that Britain faced a choice “to remain in the Single Market and then assume the free movement that goes with it or to have another status”. Free movement of labour between EU states is regarded by Brussels as one of the fundamental