Single market

Trade body is nudging government towards a saner Brexit. But its “softly, softly” approach doesn’t match the urgency of the crisis.

As another French president made clear half a century ago, the UK either lives under Europe’s common laws or goes its own separate way.

Report gives SNP plenty of Brexit ammunition, not least to ask where government and the opposition’s analysis is.

Labour and Tories may decide it’s best to stay in customs union. That’s only good if we also stay in single market and get seat at table.

Instead of sticking boot in to chaotic PM, Labour leader prefers baffling his own MPs over single market access after Brexit.

Party now virtually committed to “a” single market and customs union - even if not quite ready for “the” single market and customs union.

With Scotland, Wales and London demanding their own special deals, pressure mounts on PM to ditch hard Brexit.

Support for “Norway option” to protect jobs, wages and workers’ rights is welcome shift. Better still would be call to stay in the EU.

May has been guilty of obfuscation and magical thinking on Northern Ireland. Now’s time for clear thinking and straight talk.

Insistence on UK staying close to EU rules post-Brexit won’t please Brextremists. But if we don’t agree, our economy will be badly hurt.

David Davis’s attempt to woo German business for a soft Brexit seems to have fallen flat in Berlin.

Pulling out of single market and customs union will mess up both the auto industry’s exports to the EU and its just-in-time manufacturing.