UK’s Theresa May Rejects Jeremy Corbyn’s Customs Union Plan

UK’s Theresa May Rejects Jeremy Corbyn’s Customs Union Plan
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May visits a community centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland Feb. 5, 2019. (Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne/Pool
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LONDON—British Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected the idea of targeting a customs union with the European Union, pouring cold water on hopes from some that she could shift her Brexit policy to win over the opposition Labour Party.

Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29 but has yet to find a deal which is acceptable to both Brussels and lawmakers at home, raising the prospect of a disorderly exit that could damage the world’s fifth largest economy.