“Britain’s made a very momentous and historic choice to leave the European Union”, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said as he met his new British counterpart Theresa May by Hangzhou’s picturesque West Lake.
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Farage may be anxious that May’s insistence on the government being “able to decide” is a way to give herself wiggle room in upcoming negotiations with the EU.
The Prime Minister also said the Scottish people did not want another vote on independence, and again firmly ruled out a second European Union referendum.
The Prime Minister said the delay was down to “the way I operate” because she wanted a fresh look at the evidence for the power plant.
Monday’s debate will not alter the outcome of the referendum since the rules by which it was held were agreed by Parliament and can not be changed retrospectively.
In China for the G-20 summit, May said she is not in favor of a point-based immigration system that had been backed by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, key leaders of the pro-Brexit campaign. “The government is committed to ensuring the best possible outcome for the British people in the negotiations”.
She said there was no “single silver bullet” which could provide an answer to dealing with immigration. As for May, she is keeping her cards close to her chest, and hasn’t said what sort of system she would favor instead.
May reiterated that there would be no change in the status of European Union citizens now living in the United Kingdom before Britain leaves the bloc, which would follow two years of negotiations sparked by the government triggering the Article 50 mechanism.
But Mrs May said that her talks with Japan and other countries showed they were “confident” about the UK’s future.
But at least seven lawsuits have been brought to force the government to accept that parliament should decide whether Britain should trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the formal exit process, rather than the prime minister.
“We are going to make a success of Brexit and one way we will do that is by playing to Britain’s strengths as a great trading nation and forging our own new trade deals around the world”, she said ahead of the summit.
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New British leader Theresa May sought to start shaping her country’s post-EU access to world markets on Monday, but faced a Japanese warning over the fallout from Brexit and the U.S. saying it was not its first priority.
