Daniel Hannan
Conservative MEP and Leave campaigner“absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market.”
Video interview, the year before the referendum. Source: Full Fact
What happened
On 17 January 2017 the Prime Minister, Theresa May, said: “What I am proposing cannot mean membership of the single market.” The UK left the single market on 1 January 2021.
Sources: GOV.UK: Lancaster House speech · OBR