The UK isn’t Norway, and the proposed common market 2.0 is no solution to Brexit

An option that pleases no one, does not deliver on the result of the referendum and locks us into permanent negotiations with the EU will not lead us back to national unity, says Nat Shaughnessy

Wednesday 29 May 2019 16:30 BST
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Could Leave mean Norway-plus?
Could Leave mean Norway-plus?

Nothing has changed.

A month ago, EU leaders offered the UK a six-month extension of Article 50 after a debate that lasted into the small hours of the morning. Theresa May mercifully had no choice but to accept: yet she arrived back at No 10 with a deal that still appears unpassable, despite ongoing cross-party talks with Jeremy Corbyn.

After the Easter break and local elections that proved fairly disastrous for both main parties, it remains potentially awkward for either side to end these talks, even though they seem to be going nowhere. The country is not far from entering a new Groundhog Brexit phase, with the start of each new day, week, or month marked by Theresa May scrambling journalists outside Downing Street to let them know she is “getting on with the job at hand”.

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