Leaving the Single Market while keeping the Customs Union would reduce the United Kingdom economy to the status of a bargaining chip for Brussels.
The Labour leader showed up the Prime Minister’s unsustainable indecisiveness.
“The Labour manifesto said they wanted to strike trade deals, now they’ve gone back on that policy.”
“I think we can burn off a few of ours plus get a few Labour votes and, equally important, absentions”, this site is told.
The ‘bins and council tax’ message which resonated in the local elections needs to be turned into a ‘public services, security and cost of living’ message nationally.
In reference to Clark’s comments earlier, the leader of the ERG points to previous discreditations of the “scare-story” approach.
She says “it’s what it delivers that matters”, and talks of need to counter “the factual nonsenses that are being put out there”.
The DUP leader states “it’s very clear the British people voted to leave the customs union”.
She says it will “require give and take”, and “that we have decide what’s important”.
The Shadow Chancellor also says “we want to get as close to the Single Market as we possibly can”.
He discusses “three requirements”: minimising frictions, concluding FTAs, and avoiding a hard border in NI.
Following the results of last Thursday’s elections, we should feel rejuvenated by the clarity of the pro-Brexit message that the voters sent to us.
Plus: That customs Cabinet committee meeting – and luck & chance in politics. How Zephaniah has fallen. Javid v Khan. And: my local elections overnight marathon.
Conservative Progress is engaging and training up the activists who will help deliver future election victories for our Party.