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BRITAIN will have to accept European Union rules “without exception” if it wants full access to the single market after Brexit, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker warned yesterday.
Speaking on French TV, Mr Juncker denied he was taking a “hard line” with Britain.
Mr Juncker said that the EU’s position was that there should be “no access to the internal market if you do not accept the rules — without exception of nuance — that make up the internal market system.”
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR