"If we insist on leaving the EU then there is realistically only one way to honour our obligations under the Good Friday Agreement and that is to remain members of both the customs union and the single market"
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Labour frontbencher Owen Smith backs another EU referendum BBC News (23 March 2018)
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Owen Smith
Owen Smith (born 2 May 1970) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from the 2010 to 2019 general elections when he stood down. The other candidate in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election, he lost to Jeremy Corbyn (first elected Labour leader in 2015).
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