Meanwhile, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has suggested Britain could rely on World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules to trade with the European Union after Brexit.
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“The prime minister has been absolutely clear that the British public have voted and now she will get on with delivering Brexit”, a Downing Street source told the paper.
May has consulted government lawyers, who have told her that she has the executive power to invoke Article 50 without a vote in Parliament.
Mr Smith said: “Theresa May is clearly running scared from parliamentary scrutiny of her Brexit negotiations”. Article 50 is the two-year formal process for the exit of countries from the EU.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will not hold a parliamentary vote on Brexit before opening negotiations to formally trigger the country’s exit from the European Union, the Telegraph has reported.
And some pro-Remain politicians and activists had viewed this as a window by which they could influence the process – either by withholding their votes until certain promises were made (freedom of movement, for example), or by refusing to vote altogether in an attempt to force Britain’s continued membership of the European Union.
Ministers will “discuss the next steps in the negotiations”, a government source told the Telegraph, before the prime minister heads to China for a meeting of G20 world leaders.
May’s government already faces a legal challenge to stop it beginning the process of leaving the European Union without an act of parliament. The case, which will be heard in the High Court in October, claims that Article 50 can not be invoked until the European Communities Act of 1972 is repealed.
He also predicted the Government will trigger Article 50 early in the new year and start the formal two-year countdown to Britain leaving the EU.
“There were people who are threatening to try and stop Brexit”.
“Bearing in mind that we will anyway have access to the marketplace under WTO rules, so the question really is – do we want more preferential arrangements than that?”
When she said “Brexit means Brexit”, it looks like she wasn’t bluffing.
“And that was one of the key areas that the British public voted for in the process of taking back control”.
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While Iain Duncan Smith, the former Work and Pensions Secretary, has said that the Government needs to “get on” with triggering Article 50 amid signs of increasing splits among Conservative MPs.
