Brexit means the United Kingdom will “decide on our borders, our laws and the taxpayers’ money”, David Davis declared as he faced MPs for the first time as a cabinet minister this evening (5 September).
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Davis said that securing a deal that is in Britain’s national interest does not and must not mean turning its back on Europe.
JAPANESE companies could move operations out of the United Kingdom if Brexit makes it a less profitable place to do business, the country’s ambassador in London has warned.
Mrs May said that as Home Secretary she was told by immigration officers that the most important thing the UK Government should focus on was students who had met the criteria to come to the UK but did not appear to be heading for a genuine course.
“But what we’ve heard instead hasn’t been a strategy, it hasn’t been a thought out plan, it’s just been more empty platitudes from a Government that just continues to make it up as it goes along”.
Carlo Calenda, an Italian economic development minister, told Bloomberg: “We can not waste two years by negotiating with the United Kingdom how to maintain them inside without them wanting to be inside. But a points-based system does not meet that”, she told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China today.
But, asked if they could pull out if Brexit goes wrong, he warned: “That’s an open question yet to be answered, because we do not know – of course, all options are available to the private sector”.
Secondly, numerous ideas listed by the government are not at all radical – many British firms also want open access to European Union markets and a steady supply of workers from the continent and elsewhere around the world.
He said: “What the Prime Minister said in China is very clear: she wants a results based immigration system, one that actually delivers an outcome that the British people vote for”.
Ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage said many people had voted Leave for the policy, backed by Boris Johnson among others.
Alexander Downer said: “We decide that we will take, for example, 78,000 skilled migrants and that’s how many visas we will issue”.
“It means getting the best deal for Britain – one that’s unique to Britain and not an off-the-shelf solution”.
Mrs May said there were “various ways” for the Conservative Government to assert control over migration into the United Kingdom but declined to elaborate, noting only: “We will be coming forward in due course with proposals”.
Although Mrs May supported remaining in the European Union, she has said that the Brexit vote must be respected and suggested that curbs on the current free movement of European Union citizens into the United Kingdom would be a red line in future negotiations with the EU.
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Mr Tsuruoka’s warning comes a day after Japan’s government issued a 15-page list of demands aimed at protecting the country’s auto manufacturers and financial institutions as well as the jobs of Britons working for Japanese firms after Brexit.
