#europe #customsunion

British businesses need a better deal with Europe Sign our petition to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and demand a better deal for British businesses trading with Europe

#EuropeanMovement petition mentioned by #LeedsForEurope in today's #Hull Daily Mail also calls for restoration of reciprocal #FreedomOfMovement, #CustomsUnion and greater consultation with SMEs.

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#Realignment - good
#SingleMarket & #CustomsUnion - better
#RejoinEU - best

A new #CustomsUnion with the #EU is an essential urgent first step to getting growth back into the UK economy.
Then we should consider joining the #SingleMarket, and if the British people support it, becoming a member of the EU again. And hopefully that will be an EU that includes #Ukraine.
#Brexit

Nice one. Fingers crossed 🤞
Farage and the Bedwetters will be filling their nappies. #CustomsUnion
#EU 🇪🇺

Northern mayors are ramping up pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to forge closer ties with the European Union (EU) – including rejoining the customs union

#CustomsUnion #EU #RejoinEU

Labour mayors pressure Starmer to U-turn on EU customs union West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin says her party needs to go back on one of its manifesto 'red lines'

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Labour mayors pressure Starmer to U-turn on EU #CustomsUnion

“If there was ever a time to deepen our relationship with our closest friends, allies and trading partners, it is now”

#SingleMarket needed too!

A letter headed "Green backing", that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 10 March 2026. Peter Packham, Chair of Leeds for Europe, disagrees with the assessment of an earlier correspondent about the outcome of the recent Gorton and Denton by-election. A win for pro-EU Green Party was good for his group's cause, Mr Packham argues.

Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social in @yorkshirepost.co.uk: Good #RejoinEU result in recent by-election 😊

Quoting victor @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social: " #Brexit disaster ...right now join #CustomsUnion ...want us in #EuropeanUnion " 😊

😞result for #Brexit party #ReformUK, too 😊

Another Brexit benefit? Thousands at risk of losing their jobs
#RejoinEU #SingleMarket #CustomsUnion

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives

“It has meant being honest about the huge damage being caused by #Brexit, lobbying for a youth mobility scheme with the EU, and the need to rejoin the #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion”

UK should talk about rejoining the EU customs union, says trade secretary But Peter Kyle argues it will not be a 'quick fix', as he visits Brussels to drum up trade

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“The Government has committed to staying out of the #CustomsUnion and #SingleMarket on the basis of a promise in the Labour manifesto, but pro-European campaigners have been stepping up a push to reconsider this”

Absolutely!

And we’d get our #FoM back,into the bargain!

EU has 'open mind' on UK customs union debate, says commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis says the EU is willing to engage with Britain amid mounting global uncertainty.

#Brussels would be "open‑minded" about discussing closer trade ties with the #UK, including the possibility of working together on a #customsunion, the #EU Commissioner for finance told the #BBC. He also opened the door to Britain entering the EU's €150bn ($177bn; £130bn) #defence loans #scheme.

Brexiteers know they were duped and Russia celebrated. #youthmobility #customsunion #rejoin

Brexit has left Britain weaker. And with President Trump again threatening tariffs and picking fights with Europe, we cannot gamble our economy on an increasingly unpredictable White House.

#Brexit #CustomsUnion #Trump

U.K. compared financially with several adjacent European countries for GDP (how much the country makes, per head, Per year)
We are not doing terribly well, chaps! We are down in the weeds…..
#customsunion
#fbpe

The "Brexit people voted for" is a chimera, a phantasm, a flibbertigibbet, a will-o'-the-wisp and a clown.

It doesn't exist.

You are in power, do something about it. #CustomsUnion

Death by thousand cuts, as Starmer seeks to ameliorate enormous damage of Brexit (Costing UK £286 billion every year now)

Why cannot he have courage, backed by 80% of his own Members and 70% of country, to grip problems and go for #SingleMarket , #CustomsUnion, or re-entry EU?

Would reversing Brexit make you richer? The experts’ verdicts Labour is taking the UK closer to the EU and the Lib Dems want to go further, but the economic benefits may prove to be limited

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Would reversing #Brexit make you richer? The experts’ verdicts

“You are not going to fundamentally transform the relationship for the better without rejoining the #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion”

Just do it!

Starmer says closer ties with EU single market preferable to a customs union Prime minister gives clearest sign yet that government is seeking to further deepen Britain’s links with Brussels

Starmer: "we need to shoot down this idea that slogans, easy answers, quick fixes, shortcuts are what fix the country. They didn’t fix it.”

Then why the easy quick fix slogan of "closer ties", rather than a proven solution? 🤔
#CustomsUnion

Remember when Brexiteers raved about the trade deals we’d sign once we left the EU.

Well, five years on from Boris’s botched deal, let me show why these deals are worth absolute peanuts compared to what we lost thanks to Brexit. 🥜

#Brexit #CustomsUnion @libdems.org.uk

#customsunion. Just get on with it.
If people feel better off the #migration distraction loses some of its potency #EU #closerties

Then the uk just has to join the #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion and job done.

Fuck #starmers and #ukLabour red lines

Trade unions leader calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe In an exclusive interview, the head of the TUC Paul Nowak says a customs union with the EU could boost the UK’s economy

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Trade unions leader calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe

“He did not believe there was a significant number of voters who still remained opposed to closer trading ties with Europe”

Indeed, so why wait?

#CustomsUnion
#SingleMarket

Will Starmer's Labour listen in 2026?

While they dither with their huge majority, and repeatedly shoot themselves in both feet, Farage waits, laughing up his sleeve.

#RejoinEU #CustomsUnion #FreeMovementAgain #CancelBrexit #ToryCostOfLivingCrisis #ToriesBrokeNritain #r4today #skynews #UKPolitics

Starmer faces a referendum on his leadership – and it could prove fatal The Prime Minister has a rocky year ahead

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“Also worrying for Starmer will be the increasingly voluble debate over rejoining the EU #CustomsUnion – which would remove some trade barriers – as a magic fix for the economy”

Not as magic as #RejoinTheSingleMarket, though!

Labour faces election threat over reversing Brexit The Labour Party is squeezed by Reform and Tories on one side, and Green and Lib Dems on the other

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“A senior Labour MP told The i Paper on Monday that rejoining the #CustomsUnion was being widely discussed in the parliamentary party. “People want it. It would be a bold, sensible and grown-up way to get us out of the economic and political shit we’re in”

Or #RejoinEU

More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union – UK politics live YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move

More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU #customsunion – Wes Streeting used an interview to suggest that he favours joining a customs union with the EU. This is something that Keir Starmer has ruled out.
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More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union – UK politics live YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move

70% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think future PM should open talks on #rejoining EU - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... "80% of people who voted Labour at the last general election say a future leader should open negotiations on joining a #customsunion." pretty clear what needs to be done..

The Long-Term Drag of Brexit Brexit is probably the main reason the UK economy is doing badly because it’s made trade slower, more expensive, and more uncertain, especially for small and medium sized businesses. Leaving the single market and customs union introduced new paperwork, border checks, and regulatory barriers that didn’t exist before, reducing exports and discouraging investment. Many international … Continue reading The Long-Term Drag of Brexit →

So glad we are rejoining #Erasmus, now come on, rejoin #customsunion etc. #EU #Labour #brexit has failed us all!