Speaking on Tuesday, May’s spokesman confirmed there would be no second referendum or snap general election, despite the hopes of some “Remain” campaigners that the process of leaving the European Union could be stalled.
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Downing Street has also confirmed Mrs May will not hold a second referendum or an early general election to give voters the chance to sign off on any Brexit deal. He said there would be: “no attempts to rejoin [the EU] through a back-door mechanism”.
During the Cabinet session today, Mrs May will ask her ministers to exercise a tighter grip on their officials.
Senior ministers are to discuss plans for Brexit with Mrs May at a Cabinet meeting at her country retreat Chequers on Wednesday.
Despite giving May breathing space to devise a negotiating stance before triggering the exit procedure, they are keen for Britain to begin the talks and end uncertainty that has hurt investment.
The UK’s future outside the European Union will be a key issue during the Prime Minister’s first full week back at work following her summer holiday in Switzerland as she travels to the G20 summit in China at the weekend.
Article 50 is the two-year formal process for the exit of countries from the EU.
He added: “David Davis, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt should have the courage of their previous convictions and argue in Cabinet for the second referendum they used to believe in”.
Downing Street has said lawmakers will be given “a say”, but adds there’s “no legal obligation” to consult Parliament.
That language suggests that May’s red line in the Brexit negotiations will be ending the right of European Union citizens to settle freely in Britain, even if that is at the cost of tariff-free access to the bloc’s single market. But also how we can get tough on irresponsible behaviour in big business – again making sure that actually everyone is able to share in the country’s prosperity.
Labour MP and Remain campaigner David Lammy has urged the House of Commons to reject triggering the article in a bid to keep the United Kingdom inside the EU.
“British business could not survive without access to that free movement of labour”.
Labour shadow minister without portfolio Jonathan Ashworth said: ” After six years of Tory Government, working people are feeling the pinch, public services are under pressure and the Tories have no plan to deal with the vote to leave Europe.
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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”.
