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SKY Barry Gardiner has criticised the EU side of the Brexit negotiation

Speaking to Sky News, Mr Gardiner said: "There are those people in the UK who would like to see us leave membership of the European Union but retain membership of the EEA, the European Economic Area. "Now, I don’t subscribe to that because I think most of the political reasons that people wanted to leave the European Union would actually not be achieved by doing that. "We will not be members of the single market. We have to negotiate a free trade agreement with Europe, where we can negotiate the sort of customs arrangement we want, hopefully as friction-free as possible." He then laid into Brussels negotiators for making the issue of a free trade deal a political battle, after his Conservative counterpart Liam Fox said such a deal would be easy to strike.

GETTY Labour's Shadow International Trade Secretary also contradicted his own leader

SKY Gardiner laid into Brussels negotiators for making the issue of a free trade deal a political battle

We will not be members of the single market Barry Gardiner