Bloomberg: May's Northern Irish ally pushes for U.K. single market exit

11 July 2017

Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, which is propping up Theresa May’s minority government, will push for the UK to exit Europe’s single market, one of its senior lawmakers said.

Quitting the single market and tariff-free customs union is the “logical position” after Britain leaves the EU, Sammy Wilson said in a Bloomberg Radio interview on Tuesday. May relies on the DUP’s 10 lawmakers in Westminster to pass laws.

“When we campaigned to leave the European Union we wanted freedom from the interference which the EU brought about in terms of laws and regulations in the U.K. That means leaving the single market,” Wilson said. “We also wanted freedom to do our own trade deals with the expanding parts of world’s economy and that meant being free of the customs union.” [...]

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