According to a spokesperson for Number 10, May explained that Article 50 will not be triggered until next year.
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“We’ll also be looking at the opportunities that are now open to us as we forge a new role for the United Kingdom in the world”, she added. May has said she wouldn’t call national elections before they are next scheduled in 2020, despite having a commanding lead in opinion polls over the opposition Labour Party since taking office. 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. However, they made clear that it would be the United Kingdom government’s decision to establish the terms of Britain’s EU exit and when it would begin, ruling out any possibility of a Scottish veto.The Brexit debate needs more tolerance on both sidesCharles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said immigration controls meant Britain’s Brexit deal would not be along the lines of that used for Norway or Switzerland.
“The PM said that there were two related imperatives: getting the best deal for people at home, and getting the right deal for Britain overseas”, said the spokeswoman, adding that “this must mean controls on the numbers of people who come to Britain from Europe, but also a positive outcome for those who wish to trade goods and services”.
The meeting also restated the Government’s commitment to “fiscal discipline and living within our means” and agreed on “the vital need to increase productivity and the importance of doing more to foster economic growth and industrial development in regions up and down the country”, said the spokeswoman.
However, she will not trigger Article 50 – the formal process for leaving the EU – before the start of next year, despite pressure from other European nations to move faster.
But the European Commission’s vice-president, Frans Timmermans, said in an interview with the AFP news agency also on Wednesday that the EU wanted an amicable outcome.
The ministers also discussed the government’s efforts to tackle social inequalities and its legislative program, and the political environment ahead of her Conservative Party’s annual autumn conference in early October. Ms.
Some are in favor of maintaining full access to the single market and others support not being part of it. May’s first meeting appeared amiable, with the PM telling reporters: “We have two women here who have got on and had a very constructive discussion, two women who, I may say, get on with the job”.
In comments made at the start of the meeting whilst the cameras were allowed in, Mrs May said the Government was clear that “Brexit means Brexit”.
Mrs May also slapped down a demand from Labour leadership contender Owen Smith, who wants the PM to put her European Union exit deal to voters again in a fresh referendum or general election.
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Mr Rees-Mogg described reports of jockeying for position among the Cabinet’s three Brexit big beasts, Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox as “August cricket-pitch mowing rather than proper turf wars”, suggesting that any departmental rivalries were in fact restricted to the “Sir Humphreys” of the civil service. But Finance Minister Philip Hammond, who fears that any exit from the European Union single market will hit London’s status as the continent’s top financial market and major revenue-earner, is opposing such a radical step.
