SK says jobs lost, businesses moving away, says some have already moved 5% to 10% of their staff away.
Q: When did you start to write the common rulebook plan?
A: "For some time," but with lots of waffle on A50, Mansion House speech, blah blah. Repeats well-worn line that EU's 2 options so far are not acceptable.
Q: When did David Davis know about the common rulebook?
A: We have been talking about this for some time.
May says govt needed a new approach that didn't end up with a "chaotic leaving" – implies DD agreed with this...
"This common rulebook protects those jobs and livelihoods"
May says, er, that it will be possible to do so without explaining how.
May: It is real sovereignty.
She says: "The common rulebook does allow us to sign trade deals around the world."
[Feel like this statement comes with loooads of small print]
But doesn't deny #Marr's assertion that British courts will still have to take notice of what ECJ does and says.
May says most of it is from Mansion House speech. But in relation to trading goods, and the frictionless border things had to change.
[The closer we get to March 2019 the less threatening this really sounds]
May: Conspicuously doesn't say yes. "I am in this for the long term... this is a very complex issue."
May: He told me to sue the EU.
#Marr: It makes you look a little bit submissive.
May: Oh come on, Andrew...