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EU single market membership could derail Labour's manifesto

OFF-THE-SHELF single market membership would undermine Labour’s radical nationalisation plans, Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday.

Amid the row over Brexit at the Scottish Labour conference, the British party’s leader reiterated his call for a bespoke arrangement between this country and the EU.

He said it would be “wrong to sign up to a single market deal without agreement that our final relationship with the EU would be fully compatible with our radical plans to change Britain's economy.”

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