Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out a second referendum, saying that she is preparing to trigger the formal divorce proceedings that would eventually take Britain out of the club it first joined in 1973.
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US President Barack Obama said at a joint briefing Sunday with May that they had discussed trade and both countries aim to “ensure that we don’t see adverse effects” in their commercial ties.
Mr Davis made his statement as MPs at nearby Westminster Hall began debating a petition calling for a second referendum on whether Britain should leave the EU.
“They were mainly asking for more details”.
“A points-based system does not give you that control”.
“I think what we need to be doing is making sure that we can get the best possible deal for the United Kingdom when we leave the EU”.
During questions from MPs, Davis gave the strongest hint that a single market deal with Europe would be improbable if the European Union demanded Britain giving up control of its borders as a condition.
“I expect to be able to guarantee their status, I want to be able to guarantee their status”.
Speaking to reporters during her visit to the G20 summit in China she said: “You really don’t want to ask a former home secretary about the intricacies of points-based systems”. “No attempt to delay, frustrate or thwart the will of the British people”.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage accused the prime minister of backsliding on immigration, pointing out that the points-based system had become a central campaigning issue in the final weeks of the referendum campaign. “We can create an immigration system that allows us to control numbers and encourage the brightest and the best to come to this country”, he said.
Mrs May’s words will fuel fears among voters and eurosceptic lawmakers that having a pro-Remain prime minister will result in a watered-down version of Brexit that does not represent what people voted for.
Several lawsuits have been launched to force the government to accept that parliament should decide on whether Britain should trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which would begin the formal exit process from the European Union, rather than allowing the prime minister to decide alone.
Mr Davis said the government’s focus was on getting it right.
However, he warned that while the economic impact of the Brexit vote had been “proven to be wrong”, the United Kingdom should “not get too optimistic before we close the deal”.
Labour is accusing the Government of “making it up as it goes along” when it comes to its plan for the United Kingdom leaving the EU.
He said: “Brexiteers wanted out of Europe but they did not have a plan for the day after or the days after that”.
Japan has warned that some of its firms were lured to Britain by its sales pitch as a launching pad for tapping the much-larger European market – adding that London has a duty to hammer out a Post-Brexit deal that protects Japanese companies.
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The Brexit result unleashed immediate political and financial market turmoil in Britain.
