As Labour politicians, we reject a hard-right Brexit, and defend the single market | Stephen Doughty, Chuka Umunna and others

We oppose the Brexit policy being dictated by the Tory right. Leaving the single market would cost public services 31bn. Our party should fight that

Jeremy Corbyn has rightly said that Labour's position on Brexit is to focus on a deal that prioritises jobs first. We are all united behind that goal. For us that means membership of the single market. A country can be a member of the single market without being a member of the EU and we must be clear - "access" to the European single market is both different and inferior to "membership" of the single market. Why? Because if we leave the single market, whatever the level of access is negotiated, working people across Britain will be worse off and revenue to the exchequer will plummet - revenue the next Labour government will need to bring an end to years of damaging Tory austerity.

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