Labour politicians join forces to fight against Tories' hard Brexit [View all]

[Denzil_DC]

More than 50 Labour politicians, including frontbenchers, have signed a statement claiming young voters backed their party in 2017 because they wanted it to “stop the Tories in their tracks” over Brexit.

The group, made up of dozens of MPs, peers and MEPs on the left and right of the party, claimed the best way to do that was by “fighting unambiguously for membership of the single market”.

In an intervention that will increase the pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to further differentiate his position from that of the Tories, the politicians say “mere access” to the internal market will make working people poorer and hit revenues.

That will make it harder to “bring an end to years of damaging Tory austerity”, they say.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/20/labour-politicians-join-forces-to-fight-against-tories-hard-brexit

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Later in the article, there's finally acknowledgement that existing "Four Freedoms" EU rules allow restrictions on EU citizens moving to the UK. This is as succinct a summary of why the UK hasn't exercised that right as I've found:

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Prof. Colin Talbot @colinrtalbot

The important point here is UK could always have better controlled borders but chose not to and then blamed the EU