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		</div><p>Jeremy Corbyn has kept the door open for long-term UK membership of the EU single market after Brexit.</p>
<p>And the Labour leader said he wanted Britain to retain membership of &#8220;many&#8221; EU agencies following its withdrawal from the 28-nation bloc.</p>
<p>Mr Corbyn also said he hoped the UK would &#8220;forever&#8221; remain a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights and subject to the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU body.</p>
<p>Labour announced last month it favoured continued membership of the single market and customs union during a transition period lasting as long as four years after the formal Brexit date of March 2019.</p>
<p>But the party is yet to announce a firm policy for the longer term, with shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer saying Labour was &#8220;flexible&#8221; on the issue.</p>
<p>Asked about Labour&#8217;s plans following the implementation period, Mr Corbyn told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s World at One that he wanted the UK to continue to &#8220;trade within the single market&#8221; and said it was &#8220;open for discussion&#8221; whether this should involve formal membership.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We want a relationship which allows us to trade within the single market,&#8221;</i> said the Labour leader.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Whether that&#8217;s formal membership &#8211; which is only possible, I believe, if you are actually a member of the EU &#8211; or whether it&#8217;s an agreed trading relationship, is open for discussion.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Corbyn has ordered his MPs to vote against the Government&#8217;s EU (Withdrawal) Bill at second reading in the House of Commons late on Monday.</p>
<p>But he insisted he respects the result of the 2016 referendum to take Britain out of the EU.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;There was a referendum and I think we have to respect the result of the referendum,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, he argued that Britain should not break off its close contact with EU institutions which enable cross-border co-operation on a wide range of issues.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I want to build a relationship with Europe and I want to work in Europe &#8211; a Europe that works for the many, not for the few &#8211; and remain a member of European institutions,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We are obviously going to be forever signed up, I hope, to the European Court of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.</p>
<p>&#8220;But there are many other EU-related agencies that we should be members of and ensure that this close relationship of manufacturing industry and universities remains and the close relationship of peoples across Europe remains.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Corbyn said he did not believe it would be possible for the UK to reach a new trade deal with the EU by March 2019, but declined to put a timeframe on the transition period, saying only it should last &#8220;for as long as necessary and as short as possible&#8221;.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The Leave date is set as March 2019,&#8221;</i> the Labour leader told World at One. <i>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see how it is possible to reach agreement on all the trade issues which are so necessary between now and then.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>He warned of a &#8220;very damaging effect to a huge amount of industries in this country, manufacturing as well as financial services&#8221; if the UK is allowed to crash out of the EU without a deal in 2019 and forced to fall back on World Trade Organisation rules and tariffs.</p>
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