Ed Miliband joins call for soft Brexit as conflict in Labour grows

Tough choices must be made to safeguard economy, including scrapping of migration cuts, warns party's former leader

The UK should stay inside the EU's single market and customs union even if this means there can only be limited cuts to immigration after Brexit, the former Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said.

Spelling out his own Brexit strategy, and insisting that tough choices must now be made, Miliband argued that safeguarding the strength of the economy should be the number one priority in negotiations over leaving the EU, rather than a focus on the "undeliverable promise" of cutting immigration to tens of thousands a year.

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