| Author (Corporate) | Labour Party |
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| Series Title | Speeches |
| Series Details | 26.02.18 |
| Publication Date | 26/02/2018 |
| Content Type | News |
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As the governing Conservative Party remained divided in February 2018 on Brexit and struggled to negotiate an agreed future relationship with the EU, attention also turned to the Labour Party and their detailed policy towards the nature of the relationship between the EU and the UK post-Brexit. Report and analysis of a speech by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit given at Coventry University on the 26 February 2018. In the speech Mr Corbyn gave the Labour Party's vision for Britain after Brexit. Labour's Brexit spokesperson Sir Keir Starmer had indicated on the 25 February 2018 that Mr Corbyn would argue in his speech that the UK would leave the customs union but then negotiate a treaty that would 'do the work of the customs union'. In the speech my Corbyn said that the UK should 'seek to negotiate new comprehensive UK-EU customs union to ensure that there are no tariffs' with the EU, 'and to help avoid any need for a hard border in Northern Ireland'. In a statement from the Labour Campaign for the Single Market published in The Observer on the 25 February 2018 a group of 80+ senior Labour Party figures urged their leader Jeremy Corbyn to declare that the UK should stay in the EU single market. |
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| Source Link | https://labour.org.uk/press/jeremy-corbyn-full-speech-britain-brexit/ |
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| Countries / Regions | United Kingdom |
