I don't find this difficult.RogerOThornhill wrote:Sigh.
Ian KatzVerified account @iankatz1000 8m8 minutes ago
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Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday: UK is leaving the single market. @HackneyAbbott on #newsnight tonight: "We're not taking any options off the table"
Has there ever been a major issue where both major parties seem utterly clueless and uncoordinated?
Here's the transcript from Marr
What Corbyn is saying is that if it's true that you have to be in the EU to be in the Single Market then we are leaving both.AM: You’ve got a reputation as a straight talker and clear answers. There’s one issue on which you won’t give a clear answer. When you’re asked would you like to see us leave the single market, you can’t tell us.
JC: The single market is dependent on membership of the EU. What we’ve said all along is that we want a tariff free trade access to the European market and a partnership with Europe in the future.
AM: But to be absolutely crystal clear, we leave the single European market because we leave the EU?
JC: The two things are inextricably linked.
AM: So we have to leave the single market?
JC: Yes.
His answer is accurate, but unhelpful. Because the line of questioning is unhelpful. Starmer has been quite clear. He's focusing less on what it's called and more on what it is. Labour wants the thing that is most like the Single Market that is compatible with the Referendum result to leave the EU.