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McDonnell warned against ‘close’ relationship with EU's single market
Lexit convenor Alex Gordon says such a relationship would ‘neutralise’ Labour’s pledges to renationalise rail, mail and energy

SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell was warned today that his proposal for a “close” relationship with the European Union single market could block many Labour manifesto pledges from becoming reality.

He claimed that a Brexit deal involving a customs union that has a “close and collaborative” relationship with the single market would win a Commons majority and be backed by business.

Mr McDonnell warned that a no-deal Brexit would be “pretty catastrophic.”

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