Britain should start talks to leave the European Union as soon as possible, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday, adding weight to calls for Prime Minister Theresa May to start the formal divorce procedure.
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“And we will not deliver a running commentary on every twist and turn of the negotiations”.
The Government is coming under pressure to invoke Article 50 and set the Brexit wheels in motion as quickly as possible, but Mr Davis, MP for Haltemprice and Howden, said Britain would be better starting negotiations only when its negotiating stance has been thoroughly outlined.
“We demand that the British people should have their say on the final deal in a referendum”.
First, we wish to build a national consensus around our position.
The talks at No 10 come after the Prime Minister faced accusations of vagueness over the government’s position on remaining in the European single market.
But May, a former interior minister who was in charge of the ruling Conservative Party’s immigration policy, also says she wants the best trade deal for Britain, refusing to say whether the country will remain in the EU’s lucrative single market.
The spokeswoman also played down reports that European Union migrants will need to secure a job before they are allowed to move to Britain under post-Brexit arrangements, insisting that the Government was looking at “various” options for imposing additional controls.
But these talks could be important because they could help to set the tone for the opening phase of the more serious negotiations on Brexit whenever they might begin – and when they do it’s worth noting Mr Tusk will be representing the interests of the 27 states remaining in the European Union, rather than the one that’s leaving.
However, on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Prime Minister stated that the Secretary’s speech merely reflected Davis’ own views and that the work on the Brexit negotiations is ongoing.
Mr Robertson repeated his challenge to Mrs May to give an “in or an out answer” to the question about single market membership.
“Our proposal today is the deal would come to the British people – we’d vote on that”.
The single market – The main worry of The City and business is losing access to the single market within the EU.
“So at this summit I argued that we need to deliver an economy that works for everyone – with bold action at home and co-operation overseas”.
She added: “It would not be right for us to prejudge those negotiations”.
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“It is after Brexit that the United Kingdom. would formally negotiate with the EU new arrangements on its relationship, such as trade, participation in the single market, and movement of labour”, Jean-Claude Piris, former head of the legal service of the Council of the European Union, wrote in the Financial Times.
