Rebel Tory MPs believe they now have sufficient support to force
Theresa May into effectively keeping the UK in the single market.
Conservatives have told
The Independent there would be enough of their party’s MPs to lock in full single market access after
Brexit, as long as Labour also backs it.
But in a move set to enrage Labour politicians,
Jeremy Corbyn’s front bench will on Tuesday refuse support for just such a proposal in the Lords – preventing it from being voted on in the Commons.
Mr Corbyn is now being warned he risks a major internal row and must explain to pro-EU party members why he is “throwing away a clear opportunity” to defeat Ms May’s plans to abandon the
single market.