Media captionShadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer tells Today Labour is united on Brexit amendments
Labour stays divided over whether or not to try to keep within the EU's single market, its Brexit spokesman has mentioned.
Sir Keir Starmer mentioned the party's MPs had "different views" as he set out a sequence of compromise proposals on retaining entry to the single market.
He additionally confirmed that Labour wouldn't again a vote subsequent week on maintaining the UK within the single market via membership of the European Economic Area.
The UK is because of go away the EU in March subsequent 12 months, after the 2016 referendum.
The background to Labour's place
Much of the main focus in the mean time is on what kind of relations the UK may have with the European Union after Brexit.
The Conservative authorities has acknowledged that the UK will go away the EU single market and the EU customs union and can not be topic to the European Court of Justice, however needs to agree a deal offering as "frictionless" commerce as potential.
The EU says that to have the advantages of the single market the UK have to be topic to its guidelines and in addition comply with the free motion of individualsthe latter is one thing which each predomit UK events have presently dominated out.
The authorities's EU Withdrawal Bill (which places all EU legislation into UK legislation to stop chaos on Brexit day) has been amended by the House of Lords to again a customs union being agreed with the EU, and in addition for the UK to affix the European Economic Area, which might imply it being a member of the single market, like Norway.
MPs are attributable to vote on these and a sequence of different Lords amendments that are additionally at odds with the federal government's place. Many Labour MPs and friends had hoped Jeremy Corbyn would say the party would vote for staying within the European Economic Area.
But Labour has now mentioned it won't help that modification, as a substitute setting out compromise plans for "full access" to the single market.
Labour's Brexit spokesman explains stance
Sir Keir Starmer advised BBC Radio four's Today programme Labour was not attempting to have its "cake and eat it" by in search of to get the advantages of the single market with out the tasks.
Sir Keir mentioned there have been totally different views within the party about European Economic Area membershipextensively known as the Norway mannequinso they might not be capable of defeat the federal government on it.
If it was an EEA member, the UK would get full entry to the single market, must pay into the EU funds and free motion legal guidelines would apply.
Labour has mentioned it should abstain in Tuesday's vote on the EEA and put ahead its personal modificationwhich guidelines out the free motion of individuals however requires "no new impediments" to commerce.
Sir Keir mentioned Labour hoped to inflict a "catalogue" of defeats on the federal governmenttogether with on a new customs union, giving Parliament a decisive vote over the ultimate deal and the Northern Irish border.
But he mentioned it was a "pretence" Labour would be capable of win a vote on the EEA problem.
"I am injecting some honesty about where we are in the Labour Party," he mentioned. "There are very sturdy and totally different views throughout the Parliamentary Labour Party on that modification.
"I wish I could report we had unity on all amendments. We are not in that position... the only way we can win a vote is if Labour is united and we all vote together in the same way at the same time."
The key dates forward on Brexit
The maths of Commons votes
Theresa May's Conservative Party have 316 MPs and a deal which provides them the help in key votes of the 10 DUP MPs from Northern Ireland. At the second it could take all opposition MPsand eight Conservatives to insurgentfor a defeat to occur.
For each Labour MP who voted towards EEA membership one other Conservative insurgent can be required.
An enormous change in Labour coverage?
Sir Keir known as it a "significant" assertion of coverage, that Labour needed a relationship with the EU after the transition interval ends in 2020 based mostly on "shared institutions and regulations" and "common standards".
The EU, he advised, was ready to barter such a relationship, which he mentioned can be supported by enterprise and staff as it could retain many of the present advantages of the customs union and single market.
"If the UK signifies that it needs to barter one thing which retains us economically near the EU, there's a negotiation available and we should always have that earlier than giving up on that.
"The government has giving up fighting for the customs union and single market for fear of the negotiations."
Mr Corbyn has mentioned EEA membership would make the UK a "rule-taker" with no say in Brussels however pro-EU campaigners says it's nonetheless the very best deal on provide for the UK.
Reaction to Labour's stance
Labour MP Chuka Umunna mentioned potential Tory rebels wouldn't help Labour amendments for "tribal and political reasons" and would solely give their backing to cross-party proposals.
"The only amendment that has any prospect of success on the European Economic Area, on the internal market as some people call it, is the amendment that has been sent back to us from the House of Lords."
The Liberal Democrats accused Labour of "peddling snake oil", saying the one solution to have entry to the single market was by being a part of the EEA.
Brexit minister Suella Braverman mentioned: "Labour have shattered their promise to respect the referendum resultthis amendment means accepting free movement and continuing to follow EU rules with absolutely no say in them, which is the worst of all worlds."