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British PM to talk Brexit with EU
Theresa May has refused to say whether she wants the United Kingdom to remain within the European single market, telling MPs she will not reveal her Brexit negotiating hand “prematurely”.
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Mrs May faces a grilling from MPs as she takes her first session of Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons amid concerns that the Government is struggling to agree a strategy for Brexit.
Referring to talks at the G20 Summit, May, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the margins of the summit, said: “As we leave the European Union we will forge our own trade deals”.
Labour MP Tristam Hunt, who was sitting on the panel at the “Let’s talk about Europe” conference, used his time on stage to also level fresh allegations of ineptitude at Prime Minister Theresa May.
The conundrum of how to maintain the economic benefits of single market membership while also ending free movement of European Union citizens – seen by many as incompatible positions – has become central to the debate over how to deliver Brexit.
“I’m sorry to say that in her first PMQs in July, you put Theresa May under no pressure at all”, wrote Mr Smith to the Labour leader.
A Downing Street spokeswoman later told journalists that Davis, a Leave campaigner, was making a personal view at the dispatch box.
Mrs May’s trip to the G20 summit was largely dominated by issues relating to Brexit with a particular focus on trade and the way in which the United Kingdom will position itself globally after it has left the EU.
Mrs May has said India, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore are also keen to remove trade barriers.
While the European Union leaders are expected to reassert their post-referendum position that they won’t start any kind of talks about the future relationship with the United Kingdom until Britain triggers Article 50, much of the discussion in Bratislava will likely focus on various European Union initiatives aimed at bolstering the bloc’s standing after June’s vote. Ball in United Kingdom court to start negotiations.
But Mr Corbyn hit back and said: “The Prime Minister said she wasn’t going to reveal her hand on this subject”.
“I have no doubt that at the end of the day our common strategic goal is to establish the closest possible relations”.
In evidence that the crucial decisions remain unresolved in the higher echelons of the government, Mrs May distanced herself from her Brexit Secretary, David Davis, who remarked this week that continued membership of the single European market would be “very improbable” after Britain quits the EU.
The EU is waiting for the United Kingdom to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the formal step required to start the departure process, which is supposed to take two years.
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He also implied that the United Kingdom had a strong negotiating position, thinking a “unique solution” was needed for the United Kingdom given it being “a large market for very important industries in the European Union”.