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How Corbyn and May could find consensus on Brexit - and what the result might look like
As Sam Lowe from the Centre for European Reform has argued convincingly, a customs union does not simply prevent the UK from developing an independent trade policy; instead it requires it to align its tariff regime with the EU’s common external tariff.