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Corbyn: We can be better off outside the EU

by Felicity Collier

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday that the party would push for “full access” to the European single market but Britain could be better off after Brexit.

In his first speech of 2017 in Peterborough, the Labour leader insisted that “we’ve got to be able to trade with Europe.”

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