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Set out your Brexit model, Foreign Secretary tells Tory leadership contenders

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This morning, Philip Hammond has insisted that those running for the Tory leadership explicitly set out how they intend to leave the EU. The Foreign Secretary told Robert Peston that he wanted to know how they would manage the trade-off between single market access and free movement.

Hammond himself appears to favour a version of the Norwegian model; in the single market and accepting free movement.

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