by Peter Walker, Political correspondent
Being in or out of the EU customs union was “not a binary decision”, Theresa May said during a sometimes noisy prime minister’s questions dominated by the strategy for Brexit – or what her critics say is the lack of one.
May repeatedly insisted she and her ministers were devising a coherent plan for exiting the EU but would not share details before negotiations began.
After the SNP’s Angus Robertson asked about comments by the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, that the UK would probably leave the EU customs union but retain some access to the single market, May said: “The right honourable gentleman doesn’t seem to understand that the customs union is not just a binary decision.”
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, focused his questions almost entirely on Brexit and argued that the government was “making a total shambles” of it.
In her replies, May repeatedly declined to give any details about a Brexit strategy, spiking her answers with barbed remarks.
Asked by Corbyn about Johnson’s reported remarks that the UK would probably leave the customs union, May only said: “We are preparing carefully for the formal negotiations. What we want to ensure is that we have the best possible trading deal with the European Union once we have left.” . . .
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