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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Harry Taylor

No plans to reintroduce freedom of movement or customs union, MPs told

Nick Thomas-Symonds said trade and defence with the EU should never be treated as a ‘zero-sum game’ (PA/Gareth Fuller) - (PA Archive)

The Government has said it will not reintroduce freedom of movement, the customs union or single market with the European Union, despite pursuing a closer relationship with the body nearly a decade after the UK voted to leave.

Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds was responding to Conservative Party calls not to “row back on Brexit” ahead of a joint summit between the UK and EU in London next week.

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