Thousands of demonstrators took part in a march through central London on Saturday in protest over the Brexit vote.
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Specifically they appeared aimed “at the wider body politic, at those in Holyrood, Westminster and elsewhere who now have to cope with the impact of the vote to leave the European Union”, he wrote.
Hollande had said that the decision of Brexit was made and it can not be balked or annulled amid calls from European Union leaders to implement Article 50 as soon as possible to remove uncertainty.
“I’ve been clear that Brexit means Brexit”, she said.
Front runner for the Tory crown, Home Secretary Theresa May, has said she “wants to guarantee” the position of European Union nationals in Britain, but this would come in the context of withdrawal negotiations which will only begin when the new prime minister invokes Article 50.
The government, in refusing to act, was “creating the conditions for the unwelcoming climate to continue and the rises in xenophobic and racist abuse we have seen rising in recent days”, Burnham added.
The seismic Jun 23 vote prompted the resignation of Cameron who called the referendum in a bid to decide the long-contentious issue once and for all.
Mr Blair said concerns about immigration are “real” but insisted the answer was not to quit the EU.
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He said he thought it “most unlikely” that EU nationals already living in the United Kingdom would be told they could not stay, and asked about the uncertainty for them, he said: “I’d urge the European Union to think again about this mantra that it won’t allow any discussions before Article 50 notice is served”.
He condemned May’s comment on Sunday that, “nobody necessarily stays anywhere forever”, calling this “quite threatening”.
Burnham was also highly critical of May for not being in the Commons personally.
“If we are the home of democracy, parliamentary democracy, well they’ve got to give us a general election, they can’t just push this through saying ‘the people have spoken, ‘ because the people have been lied to”, Gardiner said.
May’s stance found nearly no support among her fellow Conservative MPs in the Commons, with those criticising the position including Bill Cash, Sarah Wollaston and Crispin Blunt.
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Mr Hammond said he hoped that the deal eventually struck with the remaining European Union nations would mean ex-patriates from both sides being treated with “some symmetry”, with each able to carry on living and working in their adoptive countries exactly as before Brexit.
