I think the vote was more to raise Umunna's profile and mark him as pro-Europe and a possible future party leader.
Before negotiations you can't definitively say what you want and you're going to get it without question. If there were loads of onerous conditions on being in the single market we could still be better off out of it. There's no stance that we're definitely leaving the single market so it's pretty pointless.
How can he be a party leader if he directly contradicts the current leader, bails on previous leadership contests and isn't in the shadow cabinet because he acts like a child?
I think the vote was more to raise Umunna's profile and mark him as pro-Europe and a possible future party leader.
Before negotiations you can't definitively say what you want and you're going to get it without question. If there were loads of onerous conditions on being in the single market we could still be better off out of it. There's no stance that we're definitely leaving the single market so it's pretty pointless.