During the meeting at Downing Street, May said the exit procedure following the June 23 referendum on European Union membership would not begin before 2017. To put it simply, the ball is now in your court.
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Halton’s MP said: “May I ask the secretary of state whether, at the end of this process, under no circumstances will free movement of labour be allowed?”
Meanwhile, EU lawmakers on Thursday appointed former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt to represent the European Parliament in Brexit negotiations.
Tusk’s visit to Downing Street was supposed to act as an icebreaker ahead of the hard upcoming process between the two.
“Our goal (is) to establish closest possible EU-UK relations”.
Earlier in the week Downing Street had attempted to play down Brexit Secretary David Davis’s suggestion that it was “improbable” Britain could remain in the single market.
Theresa May was accused of being clueless and damaging the national interest after she repeatedly refused to be drawn on her Brexit plans although almost 11 weeks have passed since the historic referendum vote to leave the European Union.
His intervention came a day after British Prime Minister Theresa May had told the House of Commons that India would be one of the key countries of focus in a post-Brexit trade scenario for the UK.
Asked about the reports, the spokeswoman said: “I would point you to what the Prime Minister has said, which is that a clear message from the referendum was that British people want to have the ability to control migration from the European Union into the United Kingdom, that there are various ways in which you can do that, and it’s something that the Government is looking at at the moment and will be coming forward in due course with proposals”. We are getting on with that vital work.
The PM and her ministers were accused of “waffle” by SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson, while First Minister Nicola Sturgeon slammed them for using a “meaningless tautological soundbite” over concrete policy regarding Brexit.
She told MPs on Wednesday that she was seeking “the right deal” on trade in goods and services, but added: ‘We will not take decisions until we are ready’.
Speaking in the Latvian capital Riga following the meeting with May, Tusk reasserted European Union rules that formal negotiations on Britain leaving the European Union can not begin until the British government formally triggers procedures.
But Australian trade minister Steven Ciobo warned in a speech in London late Tuesday that negotiations on a bilateral agreement may be “a few years off” – and said that his country would prioritize a deal with the EU.
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May also said that she would take a decision this month on whether to approve a French-built and Chinese-backed power plant project in Britain that Beijing is counting on to boost its nuclear technology exports.
