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Accept EU rules or lose single-market access – Juncker

BRITAIN will have to accept European Union rules “without exception” if it wants full access to the single market after Brexit, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker warned yesterday.

Speaking on French TV, Mr Juncker denied he was taking a “hard line” with Britain.

Mr Juncker said that the EU’s position was that there should be “no access to the internal market if you do not accept the rules — without exception of nuance — that make up the internal market system.”

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