Solicitor general Robert Buckland has set hares running this morning by suggesting that Theresa May could be prepared to cave in to Jeremy Corbyn’s customs union demands.
Labour held talks with the government last week to find a way through the Brexit impasse. However the negotiations ground to a halt on Friday, with angry recriminations over the prime minister’s apparent refusal to compromise.
Mr Buckland appeared to pave the way for some sort of movement, telling the BBC’s Westminster Hour that a customs union “does mean that we deliver an end to freedom of movement and it does mean that we deliver the vast majority of the aims of Brexit, which was to leave the institutions of the European Union”.
“It’s not perfect but, frankly, in this particular hung parliament none of us can get perfection, we need to compromise.”
He said that “something approximating a customs arrangement or customs union would be the most likely outcome” of the process.
But in a sign of deep divisions among Conservatives, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson used his Daily Telegraph column to warn that Tory MPs would not allow Mrs May to “surrender” to Mr Corbyn.
“If the UK were to commit to remaining in the customs union, it would make a total and utter nonsense of the referendum result,” he said.
“To agree to be non-voting members of the EU, under the surrender proposed by Jeremy Corbyn – it cannot, must not and will not happen.”
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