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Originally Posted by ianch99

Let me get this straight: for the last 20+ years, we have been letting in more non-EU migrants that we could control because we have a lesser number of EU migrants that we cannot control?

With logic like this, they need you on the Brexit Negotiation Committee!

I think Old Boy must be a secret Remainer with arguments such as this most recent one. He's our secret weapon sent by Clegg to undermine the Leave camp.

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Ministers dash business hopes of transitional Brexit deal
Senior ministers have rejected calls by British business leaders for the UK to stay in the EU customs union and single market for a lengthy period after Brexit, raising fears of a bumpy transition to a new trading relationship with Europe...

But Philip Hammond, the chancellor, said on Friday that any transitional deal would not involve Britain remaining a member of either the customs union or single market, even though the government would do all it could to minimise “the shock” to business...

At the same time, Brexit secretary David Davis, meeting chief executives and business groups at Chevening House in Kent, dismissed the idea of Britain enjoying a transition deal that would leave it temporarily like Norway, which is not an EU member but is inside its economic and trading blocs....

Mr Hammond told reporters that Britain would definitely leave the EU, but said it would be “madness not to seek to have the closest possible” relations with the rest of Europe after Brexit.

He also confirmed that he wanted to see proof that Britain had lined up lucrative trade deals with non-EU countries before severing the UK’s links with the customs union, which would require the introduction of border checks and possible tariffs with Europe.

“The thing I remind colleagues is that if we lose access to our European markets, that will be an instant effect, overnight,” he said.

https://www.ft.com/content/b1706cf2-...7-502f7ee26895