{"id":287936,"date":"2016-12-31T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T06:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-to-leave-single-market-after-brexit-uk-minister\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T07:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T06:11:32","slug":"uk-to-leave-single-market-after-brexit-uk-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-to-leave-single-market-after-brexit-uk-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to leave single market after Brexit: UK minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain will leave the the European Economic Area (EEA), or Single Market, after Brexit, a cabinet minister says, seemingly putting an end to one of the most heated debates surrounding the country\u2019s withdrawal from the EU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tony Walker, a junior Brexit minister, said that the UK\u2019s membership would \u201cautomatically\u201d end after leaving the EU, <em>The Sun<\/em> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the UK is party to the EEA agreement only in its capacity as an EU member state, once we leave the European Union the EEA agreement will automatically cease to apply to the UK,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, this is the first time that a government minister publicly confirms Britain\u2019s divorce from the single market, which allows countries around Europe to trade across borders as easily as they do\u00a0within their own country.<\/p>\n<p>Retaining access to the single market has been one of the major worries for UK businesses ever since the country voted to leave the EU in a referendum&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/31\/504165\/UK-Walker-Brexit-May-EU-single-market\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will leave the the European Economic Area (EEA), or Single Market, after Brexit, a cabinet minister says, seemingly putting an end to one of the most heated debates surrounding the country\u2019s withdrawal from the EU. Tony Walker, a junior Brexit minister, said that the UK\u2019s membership would \u201cautomatically\u201d end after leaving the EU, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}