In last election around 480 of the 650 MPs in the House of Commons campaign for to stay in European Union, the House of Lords, also wants to be Britain staying in the EU. “For the Germans, the automotive industry is going to be key”.
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He told BBC radio that elections in France and Germany next year meant “it is not even clear which leaders our prime minister will be negotiating with, so I don’t think there’s any great rush to do it”.
The PM ruled out a poll of the public on the terms of the Brexit agreement she will strike with the EU.
“Parliament will be involved, it will have a say, opinions will be aired, but I would just say that the referendum bill was passed by a majority of six to one in the Commons and that that PM has been clear that the will of the people who voted to leave the European Union must be respected”.
One reason for the MPs’ growing anxiety is the suspicion that Britain’s top civil servants, most of whom are pro-EU, are dragging their feet in implementing the huge bureaucratic changes dictated by the EU separation talks. “We need clarity, and we need it today”.
“There is no legal obligation to consult parliament on triggering Article 50 – that position has been well set out”, the spokesman told reporters, adding that parliament had overwhelmingly backed holding the European Union referendum.
Two senior Labour MPs, Barry Gardiner and Owen Smith, over the weekend urged May to hold a vote, risking a potential crisis if a majority of MPs voted to stay in the EU.
The Cabinet will meet to discuss Brexit as it appears increasingly likely that Mrs May will not seek Parliament’s approval before formally triggering Article 50, which will kick off a two-year period of exit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the EU.
He said: “Theresa May is running scared of a parliamentary vote on Article 50 because she is afraid of the scrutiny on the final Tory Brexit deal”. If she did not hold a vote, she would “diminish parliament and assume the arrogant powers of a Tudor monarch”, Gardiner said.
“If we organise Brexit in the wrong way, then we’ll be in deep trouble, so now we need to make sure that we don’t allow Britain to keep the nice things, so to speak, related to Europe while taking no responsibility”, he said.
The meeting will take place after reports of a government split over whether or not the United Kingdom government should try to retain its membership of the single market.
Chief among them is the tension between maintaining maximum access to the European single market and imposing restrictions on the free movement of people from the EU.
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The source further explained that the challenge in 2016 is nothing compared to when the Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 and the banking sector is this time far more resilient. “It is up to the British to choose”, the official said.
