European leaders issued a stark rebuff to British hopes of a favourable new trade deal with the EU yesterday, hardening their conditions for allowing access to the single market after the UK leaves the bloc.
The move to damp expectations of a curb on the free movement of workers came after the EU’s remaining 27 members met in Brussels for the first time without the UK — a political watershed after 43 years of British membership.
“There will be no single market à la carte,” said Donald Tusk, the EU Council president, as the group met to set the terms of engagement for divorce talks following last week’s Brexit referendum.
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