Politics
(London) “A tailor-made relationship, in which the UK stays in the customs union”: this was said by Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour Party, who is speaking about Brexit today. In a speech at Coventry University, the opposition leader took sides for the first time since the Brexit vote with those who want to maintain a strict relationship with the European Union. His are very important words, because the Conservative Party, which is in power now said it wants to leave the single market and the customs union. Such position is not shared, however, by the more pro-European Tory MPs. If the latter vote with the Labour Party, the Scottish Nationalists and the Liberal Democrats in the next few weeks, the Prime Minister Theresa May might no longer have the majority she needs to complete her hard Brexit roadmap. “The Labour is ready to negotiate a new relationship with Europe that should be close and should include tariff-free access to the single market and the continuation of the existing rights, of today’s standards and trade protection mechanisms”, Jeremy Corbyn said in Coventry, pointing out that “every neighbour country of the EU, whether it is Turkey, Switzerland or Norway, has a close relationship with the European Union”. The Labour Party too, like the Conservative one, is still deeply divided about Europe, with some supporters wanting to stay in the single market and some wanting to completely break with the European Union.
