Thread by @adampayne26

At Chatham House where Nick Boles, Lucy Powell, Stephen Kinnock & Robert Halfon are talking about “Common Market 2.0.” Probably the most important discussion about this Brexit model yet - backers believe it has a HoC majority, Corbyn warming to it, MPs could vote on it soon.

Kinnock says that he agrees with Farage, Dan Hannan and Owen Paterson, who have all in the last few years endorsed a Norway-style relationship with the EU. He adds that “pragmatic Eurosceptism” has been scrapped and replaced by a “isolationist” mission which abandons the 48%.

Interesting... Kinnock says that talks with Corbyn have gone very well and could soon lead to Labour backing a Common Market-style plan.

“We hope we will be able to secure the Labour whip for a backbench driven” piece of legislation.

Lucy Powell reckons that Common Market 2.0 could command “sizeable parliamentary majority” based on conversations she’s had with MPs across the House of Commons

Nick Boles reveals that the reason Corbyn is warming to Common Market 2.0 is that the group has managed “to explain to him that the state aid restrictions are not so bad that he won’t be able to do the things he wants to do.”

New: Kinnock tells me that MPs are planing to re-table a version of Cooper-Benn next week to give the HoC time to debate next steps and pave the way to indicative votes.

Boles adds that 3 months (rumoured extension) is sufficient time to legislate for Common Market 2.0.