It will be the first time that May, appointed in July after David Cameron resigned following Britain’s vote to quit the European Union, has met her ministers since she asked them to use the break to come up with options for the country’s future relationship with the bloc after a divorce.
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The Prime Minister said: “This is a moment of great opportunity for our country: the chance to forge a bold, new positive role for ourselves in the world, and to reshape our economy and our society here at home”.
“We must continue to be very clear that Brexit means Brexit; that we’re going to make a success of it”, May told ministers on Wednesday, according to remarks emailed by her office.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet concluded there’s no need to hold a parliamentary vote before beginning the formal process for pulling Britain out of the European Union, with ministers saying they want to “push ahead” with Brexit.
Government lawyers have reassured the PM that she has the power to initiate Britain’s departure by triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty without MPs’ say so.
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.
The spokesman said there was “no legal obligation” for her to consult parliament before doing so.
Yet that has been ruled out by all other European Union governments, which insist Britain can not enjoy the benefits of a single market without accepting the obligation of the free movement of labour.
She told Today she would be “concerned about any plans to curb immigration” from Europe, which had ” benefited our country, especially business”.
“The British people have voted to leave”.
“It will not be able to access the single market unless its accepts the four freedoms, all its regulation and budgetary solidarity”.
In particular, it will be an opportunity for the three ministers who have a role in Brexit, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Dr Fox and Mr Davis, to appear side by side.
The Telegraph newspaper reported that the two sides have disagreed over Hammond’s view that access to the single market could be maintained “on a sector-by-sector basis”, with Britain retaining a favourable status for its big financial sector.
“I believe in the free movement of labour form the EU”.
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But prominent Brexit supporter and Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told the programme: “The expectation or desire to remain in the single market is basically code for rejecting the referendum result”.
