Jean-Claude Juncker has said the UK has no prospect of staying in the EU single market as part of any cross-party compromise between the Conservatives and Labour parties unless MPs first pass a Brexit divorce deal.
The European Commission president did not expect the UK to cancel the Brexit process but added that he did not see a “single-market-based solution” with the EU unless the House of Commons ratified an EU-UK divorce deal that MPs have already rejected three times.
“As far as I am concerned, the British side bears 100 per cent of the responsibility for this,” Mr Juncker told Germany’s Funke Media Group.
His comments reflect frustration that the House of Commons — through a series of “indicative votes” — failed to throw its weight behind single market membership last month. [...]
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