UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a grilling from MPs today following concerns over an agreed Brexit strategy.
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The prime minister added that in her previous post as home secretary a points-based system existed for visas for students, “B$3 ecause they [students] met the criteria, they were automatically let in”.
A Downing Street spokeswoman later told journalists that Davis, a Leave campaigner, was making a personal view at the dispatch box.
They will also discuss trade, migration, and Russian sanctions and the Ukraine.
Australia will be unable to strike a trade deal with the United Kingdom for at least two and a half years – and formal negotiations can not start until after Britain leaves the European Union – the country’s trade minister has said.
The minister also stated it would “take a little while” to work out how to disentangle the corpus of European law from United Kingdom law, saying that, although his “starting position” was simply to put all of EU law into British law and “take it from there”, he conceded “it does not quite work like that”.
“What I see there is a chance of a general election which puts the Article 50 strategy to the people and at that point you’re nearly having a re-run of the conversation whereby other political parties will say well I want to pursue the Norway model or others remaining in the European Union if Article 50 hadn’t been triggered”.
“Our goal (is) to establish closest possible EU-UK relations”.
May’s spokeswoman, Helen Bower, denied that Tusk’s comments were an attempt to put pressure on Britain.
He laid out the principles of the negotiations and tried not to reveal the government’s negotiation hand in his statement.
Once Britain has begun formal talks to withdraw from the European Union by triggering Article 50, the country will leave two years later even if no new trade deals have been agreed – unless every European Union member state agrees to extend the negotiation period.
The PM has distanced herself from Brexit Secretary David Davis’s suggestion that it is “very improbable” the United Kingdom can regain control over its own borders while remaining part of the European single market. Free movement of people among member states is a core principle of the bloc. A Number 10 spokesperson said Mr Davis’s claim was “his opinion” – and not policy.
“First and foremost, we demand that the British people should have their say on the final deal in a referendum”, Farron said in an article issued by The Guardian.
Theresa May said she would not give a “running commentary” on Brexit negotiations and “reveal our hand prematurely” to the European Union as she refused to say whether the country will stay in the single market.
Meanwhile, EU lawmakers on Thursday appointed former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt to represent the European Parliament in Brexit negotiations.
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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.
