Ms Rudd backed Ms May’s stance on that yesterday.
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“I don’t think it’s particularly desirable, but we don’t rule it out, because we have to be allowed a free hand to get the best negotiations”, Rudd replied to a question during BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show on whether such a scheme might emerge.
“I want to assure you that I, together with my colleagues in Government, will ensure that the important ongoing work of protecting the peace and building reconciliation is pursued just as vigorously as the challenges posed by a United Kingdom exit from the European Union”. We want to get the best outcome possible for the United Kingdom but we can’t rule anything out because we don’t know what might happen.
The proposed scheme would cover all visitors to the passport-free Schengen zone – of which the United Kingdom is not a member – from countries that do not need a visa to enter.
The shrinking of the trade deficit will boost hopes that the economy can continue to grow in the third quarter despite initial fears that Britain was on course to enter recession.
This would apply to travelers from outside the European Union, although it remains unclear whether it would be just for the passport-free Schengen area or the European Union as a whole.
Named the EU Travel Information and Authorisation System (Etias), it would apply to travellers entering the EU whereby Britons would be treated like residents of any other non-EU country and apply online in advance and pay a fee.
“The British Government needs to drop the empty mantras and secure free travel for British holiday and business travellers”.
Latest figures from Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) show more than 30 million trips a year are made to the European mainland by Britons, including 13 million to the most popular destination country, Spain and nearly 9 million to France.
“The plan would add 40-50 pounds (53 United States dollars to 66 U.S. dollars) to the cost of a British family’s holiday to Spain, France or the rest of the EU”, Burnham said.
They were viewed as having exposed serious failings in the EU’s external and internal border security systems. “As we forge a new global role for the United Kingdom, we can and will seize the opportunities that Brexit presents, and make a success of it”, she said.
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And she hinted that some academics, scientists and health staff – people who “really add value” – could, like top bankers, be exempt from migration curbs after Brexit.
