She said the Australian trade minister would visit Britain this week for exploratory talks on the shape of a British-Australian trade deal.
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In the wake of its vote to leave the European Union, Britain must renegotiate its access to world markets, an issue now handled for it by Brussels.
“We will trigger Article 50 as soon as is reasonably possible”, he said.
But whether Britain aims to retain access to the single market or not and how it plans to achieve its aim of curbing immigration from the rest of the European Union remain open questions, as does the timing of exit.
‘A points-based system does not give you that control.
In China for the G-20 summit, May said she is not in favor of a point-based immigration system that had been backed by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, key leaders of the pro-Brexit campaign.
May was also forced to insist that Britain still had clout at the G20 in the wake of warnings from remain campaigners that Brexit would cause the United Kingdom to lose status on the worldwide stage.
“When are they going to tell us how they’re going to deliver, for example, free trade for British businesses while also opposing immigration controls – let alone how they’re going to address the red lines Labour has demanded on the protection of workers’ rights and guarantees for European Union citizens?”
Brexit minister David Davis was due to address parliant and MPs will also discuss an online petition calling for a second referendum that has received more than four million signatures.
Japan has warned that some of its firms were lured to Britain by its sales pitch as a launching pad for tapping the much-larger European market―adding that London has a duty to hammer out a Post-Brexit deal that protects Japanese companies.
“There will be new freedoms, new opportunities, new horizons for this great country”.
THERESA May has been accused of backsliding on immigration after ruling out the points-based immigration policy championed by Brexit campaigners, claiming it was “not a silver bullet” to reduce the numbers coming to the UK.
“But what we haven’t been told is what they’re going to do”, she said.
May said Japanese technology company SoftBank’s $32 billion offer to buy Britain’s ARM Holdings was a massive vote of confidence in Britain.
May’s statement denouncing the model as “flawed” could indicate her government’s rethink on the model for non-EU migrants as well.
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Her government’s newly-appointed Brexit minister Michael Russell said: “This is the issue between a hard Brexit and soft Brexit”.
