‘Back soft Brexit,’ unions urge Labour

50 senior party figures tell party leader Jeremy Corbyn ‘to fight unambiguously for membership of the single market’Jeremy Corbyn was under pressure from across the labour movement last night to support a softer form of Brexit as the TUC joined senior party figures in calling for Britain to retain the option of staying in the single market.The unions’ intervention followed a call from Hilary Benn, the Labour chair of the Brexit select committee, who wants the party leadership t