6.Belarus, which is part of a Russia-led customs union, has been hit with sanctions for allowing Moscow to use its territory to launch the attack against Ukraine.
8.Britain will remain within the EU's economic arrangements, including the tariff-free single market and the customs union, until the end of this year.
11.Meanwhile, as long as it remains in a customs union Britain will not even get the consolation prize of signing trade deals with other countries, something by which many Brexiteers have come to set enormous (and unwarranted) store.
12.In the aftermath of the referendum, nearly three years ago, many Brexiteers might have accepted a deal in which Britain left the single market and ended free movement, with temporary membership of the customs union as the only tie.
13.In a newspaper article, Mr. Johnson who campaigned for Brexit before last year's referendum says it will be a mockery of the results if Britain continues to be part of the EU's single market and customs union.
14.If you have no single market, no customs union, no free movement, well, those are the same red lines — Keir Starmer's red lines — that actually led to the Boris Johnson trade deal that Labour likes to deride.