Let's Spell It Out - Staying In The Customs Union Effectively Means Staying In The EU!

'That’s what LEAVE means' - Labour peer dismantles Corbyn plan to keep UK in customs union

LABOUR Brexiteer Lord Glasman called on his party leader Jeremy Corbyn to abandon his plan to keep the UK shackled to a customs union arrangement with the EU post-Brexit in favour of a clean no deal break from the Brussels bloc. Speaking to Express.co.uk, the Labour peer, founder of Blue Labour and staunch supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, argued the democratic decision to leave the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum meant freeing the UK from all its core institutions - including the single market and the customs union. Asked whether he believed Jeremy Corbyn's plan to agree to a customs union arrangement with the EU and a close relationship with the single market would be the optimal solution to the Brexit impasse, Lord Glasman argued that there is a much more "straight forward" alternative to his leader's plan. He said: “It’s really quite straight forward. To leave, when we voted to leave, we voted to leave the sovereignty of the European Court of Justice.

“So ultimately, in our politics, we can’t do anything because the European court says that we can’t.

“And that’s basically in the Lisbon Treaty, which is based on the four freedoms, movement of people, money, goods and services.

“So you can’t interfere with the market. It’s effectively illegal to oppose capitalism. So I support leaving the EU sovereignty of the ECJ, leaving the customs union, and leaving the single market.

By ALESSANDRA SCOTTO DI SANTOLO. Express.