"It would be catastrophic were we to have to fall back onto WTO [ World Trade Organisation ] rules with tariff barriers, which would see jobs lost on a grand scale on this country ... the idea is that you have such barriers is deeply damaging."
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Quoted by Business Insider. A Labour MP told us Brexit will be 'catastrophic' if the UK doesn't get single market access (15 November 2016)
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Jack Dromey
John Eugene Joseph 'Jack' Dromey (29 September 1948 – 7 January 2022) was a British Labour politician and trade unionist. He was the Shadow Minsiter for Pensions from January 2018 to January 2021 and was the Shadow Minister for Labour from 2016 to 2018. He was the MP for Birmingham Erdington from 2010 until he died.
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