OFF-THE-SHELF single market membership would undermine Labour’s radical nationalisation plans, Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday.

Amid the row over Brexit at the Scottish Labour conference, the British party’s leader reiterated his call for a bespoke arrangement between this country and the EU.

He said it would be “wrong to sign up to a single market deal without agreement that our final relationship with the EU would be fully compatible with our radical plans to change Britain's economy.”

Mr Corbyn said he was “determined” to reach a deal with Brussels “that gives us full tariff-free access to the single market.”

But he said this must be “compatible with … our plans to bring the railways and postal service into full public ownership, transform energy markets and end the privatisation of our public services.”

Mr Corbyn has previously argued that EU directives limiting state aid forced the Royal Bank of Scotland to sell off profitable assets when it was nationalised after the financial crisis.

Speaking in Dundee yesterday, he vowed: “We could not accept a situation where we were subject to all EU rules and EU law yet had no say in making those laws.

“That would leave us as mere rule-takers and isn’t a tenable position for a democracy.”

He defined his party’s purpose as “fighting for people’s rights and living standards against the power of international capital.”

And he praised Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard for building opposition for a potential visit to Scotland by US President Donald Trump.

“While the SNP wooed Trump to build his golf course in Aberdeenshire, Theresa May appeases him as she bets the UK economy on a race-to-the-bottom trade deal with the US,” Mr Corbyn said.