Senior Tory under fire for arguing UK should rejoin EU single market

Former minister Tobias Ellwood (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

A Tory former minister has come under fire for suggesting the UK should rejoin the EU single market to ease the cost-of-living crisis.

Tobias Ellwood, MP for Bournemouth East, argued there is an “appetite” to make “course corrections” to the current model, claiming recent polling suggests “this is not the Brexit most people imagined”.